My Forests

Name: My Forests
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SKU: 9780522877328
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Travels with Trees

By Janine Burke

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My Forests by Janine Burke is a thoughtful exploration of the intimate relationship between humans and forests. Through personal reflections and scientific insights, the book delves into the enchanting world of trees and their significance in our planet's ecosystem. Burke combines her passion for nature with a broader environmental awareness, encouraging readers to appreciate and preserve the natural world.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate a deep dive into the natural world, exploring the rich and intricate ecosystems of forests through a lens of beauty and scientific insight. It offers a combination of personal narrative and ecological exploration that celebrates the profound connections between humans and nature.

My Forests

The narratives in My Forests are a pleasure to read; like strolling down a meandering track through the trees, you never quite know what you'll discover around that next bend. The book presents the role of trees in contemporary life in a world where most people don't live in the wild, and their acquaintance with nature comes from many sources.

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Join award-winning author and art historian Janine Burke in this enchanting and illuminating meander along forest trails within art, myth, history and present day.

The narratives in My Forests are a pleasure to read; like strolling down a meandering track through the trees, you never quite know what you'll discover around that next bend.

Travel the ancient Incense Road with the Biblical Magi. Enjoy the dancing Olive groves of Tuscany and read of 'sleeping' Silver Birches. Witness the spectacular tree houses of the Korowai of West Papua. Visit tree sitter Miranda Gibson, whose 449-day protest against clearfelling in Tasmania's Tyenna Valley led to a World Heritage listing.

In this enlightening and entertaining book, Janine Burke invites you to accompany her through forests, art and writing, cities and parks, deserts and gardens, rainforests and wetlands, exploring the connections between trees and civilisations, past and present.

My Forests—Travels with Trees presents the role of trees in contemporary life in a world where most people don't live in the wild, and their acquaintance with nature comes from many sources.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780522877328

Publisher: Melbourne University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 May 2021

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Miegunyah Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 160.0mm

Height: 239.0mm

Weight: 662g

Pages: 224

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Janine Burke Non-Fiction Penguin Books Science & Nature

About the Author

Janine Burke is an art historian, curator and novelist. In 1977, she was the inaugural art history lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts. She published Australian Women Artists- 1840-1940 (1980) and won the 1987 Victorian Premier's literary award for Second Sight. Her books on the Heide Circle include Joy Hester (1983) and The Heart Garden- Sunday Reed and Heide (2004). She wrote The Gods of Freud- Sigmund Freud's Art Collection (2006) and curated Freud and Eros- Love, Lust and Longing for the Freud Museum London (2014). More recently, Burke has focused on nature. After writing Nest- The Art of Birds (2012), she curated an exhibition of nests at McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery. In 2016, she curated Human/Animal/Artist- Art Inspired by Animals there. She is Honorary Senior Fellow, Centre of Visual Arts, University of Melbourne.