White Beech: The Rainforest Years - Hardcover

Greer, Germaine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 162040611X ISBN 13: 9781620406113

Verlag: BLOOMSBURY, 2014

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Críticas:

"Greer's brilliant analysis . . . is mischievous, restless, wide-ranging, unpredictable." --Katie Roiphe, "New York Times Book Review""Intelligent, funny, beautifully written." --"Vogue," on "The Female Eunuch"

"Greer offers a richly textured account of the lives of ordinary women . . . She meticulously traces the members of the Shakespeare and Hathaway families . . . She reminds us of facts other critics have ignored." --Marilyn French, "Publishers ""Weekly," on" Shakespeare's Wife"

Greer's brilliant analysis . . . is mischievous, restless, wide-ranging, unpredictable. "Katie Roiphe, New York Times Book Review"

Intelligent, funny, beautifully written. "Vogue, on The Female Eunuch"

Greer offers a richly textured account of the lives of ordinary women . . . She meticulously traces the members of the Shakespeare and Hathaway families . . . She reminds us of facts other critics have ignored. "Marilyn French, Publishers Weekly, on Shakespeare's Wife""

"Greer's brilliant analysis . . . is mischievous, restless, wide-ranging, unpredictable." --Katie Roiphe, New York Times Book Review

"Intelligent, funny, beautifully written." --Vogue, on The Female Eunuch

"Greer offers a richly textured account of the lives of ordinary women . . . She meticulously traces the members of the Shakespeare and Hathaway families . . . She reminds us of facts other critics have ignored." --Marilyn French, Publishers Weekly, on Shakespeare's Wife

Reseña del editor:

One bright day in December 2001, sixty-two-year-old Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty hectares of dairy farm, one of many in southeast Queensland, Australia, which, after a century of logging, clearing, and downright devastation, had been abandoned to their fate.

She didn't think for a minute that by restoring the land she was saving the world. She was in search of heart's ease. Beyond the acres of exotic pasture grass and soft weed and the impenetrable curtains of tangled lantana canes, there were macadamias dangling their strings of unripe nuts, black beans with red and yellow pea flowers growing on their branches . . . and the few remaining white beeches, stupendous trees up to 120 feet in height, logged out within forty years of the arrival of the first white settlers. To have turned down even a faint chance of bringing them back to their old haunts would have been to succumb to despair.

Once the process of rehabilitation had begun, the chance proved to be a dead certainty. When the first replanting shot up to make a forest and rare caterpillars turned up to feed on the leaves of the new young trees, she knew beyond a doubt that at least here, biodepletion could be reversed.

Greer describes herself as an old dog who succeeded in learning a load of new tricks, inspired and rejuvenated by her passionate love of Australia and of Earth, the most exuberant of small planets.

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• Verlag: BLOOMSBURY
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 162040611X
• ISBN 13: 9781620406113
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 370