A Long Walk in the Australian Bush

by William J. Lines and William J. Lires

Book Overview

One wet and blooming spring William J. Lines and an American companion undertook a 400-mile walk of the Bibbulmun trail of southwestern Australia. In this fascinating chronicle of the journey Lines draws on conservationist philosophy and his own observations to explore human interaction -- Aboriginal and white, farming and industrial, private and government -- with the Australian environment. The lessons that arise in the course of the book have universal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820320552
• ISBN13: 9780820320557
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

The Rape of the Forests

Australia does not have the strong tradition of Nature writing that America does. One exception to this is Western Australian writer William Lines. This book, the title of which pays its respects to an Eric Newby classic, is the story of his walk he did along a previous version of Western Australia Bibbulman Track which runs south from Perth. Lines deftly describes the every day aspects of the walk but intertwines his descriptions with an account of the history, a rather sad one, of Western Australian forests as a result of greed, ignorance and stupidity. An Australian environmental classic.