Summertime

Name: Summertime
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781760899035
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Reflections on a Vanishing Future

By Danielle Celermajer

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Summertime by Danielle Celermajer explores the profound impact of climate change through the lens of personal reflections and lived experiences. Set against the backdrop of the devastating bushfires in Australia, it delves into the intersection of environmental catastrophe, emotional trauma, and the urgent need for societal change. This poignant narrative combines memoir with a broader commentary on political and ecological issues.
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You might enjoy this book if you are interested in exploring the complex relationship between human society and the natural world, especially through the lens of contemporary environmental and political challenges. It offers a reflective and thoughtful examination of the impacts of climate change and the urgent need for sustainable living practices.

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A different kind of nature writing, for a different kind of landscape.

I went and sat alone where Jimmy has been lying. It is way down in the bush. The light is soft, the air and the earth are cool, and the smell is of leaves and the river. I cannot presume to know what he is doing when he lies here, but it seems that he is taking himself back to an ecology not wrought by the terror of the fires, not fuelled by our violence on the earth. He is letting another earth heal him.

Philosopher Danielle Celermajer's story of Jimmy the pig caught the world's attention during the Black Summer of 2019—20.

Gathered here is that story and others written in the shadow of the bushfires that ravaged Australia. In the midst of the death and grief of animals, humans, trees and ecologies, Celermajer asks us to look around—really look around—to become present to all beings who are living and dying through the loss of our shared home.

At once a howl in the forest and an elegy for a country's soul, these meditations are lyrical, tender and profound.

Summertime

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760899035

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 February 2021

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 208

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Danielle Celermajer Education & Reference Non-Fiction Penguin Books Politics & Current Affairs Science & Nature

About the Author

An academic at the University of Sydney, Danielle Celermajer has written two previous books for Cambridge, the top publisher in her field (The Prevention of Torture, and The Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apologies). She has contributed to other books with Bloomsbury, Stanford and Routledge. She is a regular on RN's 'The Minefield' with Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens and 'The Philosopher's Zone'. She has also written for the SMH, the Guardian and the Conversation.