A Place on Earth is an anthology of nature writing, some of it classic, some of it new, from Australia and North America. It brings together essays by many of the finest nature writers of our time on both continents, and it introduces some rich new voices to this literature of place. Each essay brings to life a place that is special--sacred, even--to its author. This is a book of places--wild, lived in, grazed, fished in, explored, lost, and remembered...