Win a copy of the book The Great Forest By Prof. David Lindenmayer AO With photographs by Chris Taylor, Sarah Rees and Steven Kuiter.
A tribute to an extraordinary landscape now under severe threat. The exquisite photographs reveal the Mountain Ash forests of central Victoria to be one of Australia’s great natural treasures.
The city of Melbourne lies on the edge of a vast plain surrounded by a green and blue mountainous rim, whose hills and peaks are home to the magnificent Mountain Ash, the tallest flowering plant on the planet.
The Mountain Ash forests were 20 million years in the making, and deep within the valleys are even more ancient, Gondwanic rainforests. The Great Forest showcases these forests as well as the world’s tallest moss, breathtaking snow gum plateaus and the remnants of massive extinct volcanoes. The Great Forest is a tribute to extraordinary landscapes now under severe threat from logging and wildfires, such as the catastrophic fire that struck on Black Saturday in 2009. It uncovers the intricate webs of life that make Mountain Ash forests so much more than their towering trees. It explores the unique forests that have sustained the Gunaikurnai, Taungurung and Wurundjeri peoples for tens of thousands of years, and that provide a home for creatures found almost nowhere else.
‘With its glorious photographs, The Great Forest shows why these forests must be preserved for future generations.’ – TIM FLANNERY, Zoologist, author, and 2007 Australian of the Year
‘It’s rare to read a book that fills your heart with joy and your eyes with tears, all at the same time. The Great Forest does just this.’ – SOPHIE CUNNINGHAM, Author, and founding member of the Stella Prize.
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competition@labelmagazine.com.au with your name, address and phone number and name of the book. Drawn October 13th, 2021.
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