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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Greer, Germaine, 1939-     Subjects     Greer, Germaine, 1939- -- Homes and haunts -- Australia -- Queensland, South East.     Rain forests -- Conservation and restoration -- Australia -- Queensland, South East.     Rain forests -- Australia -- Queensland, South East.     Women authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.     Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.     Feminists -- Australia -- Biography.     Conservationists -- Australia -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Greer, Germaine, 1939-       by title:      White beech : the ra...       by call number:      333.7516 G816w     Search the Web     Greer, Germaine, 1939-     Greer, Germaine, 1939- -- Homes and haunts -- Australia -- Queensland, South East.     Rain forests -- Conservation and restoration -- Australia -- Queensland, South East.     Rain forests -- Australia -- Queensland, South East.     Women authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.     Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.     Feminists -- Australia -- Biography.     Conservationists -- Australia -- Biography.       MARC Display

White beech : the rainforest years / Germaine Greer. by Greer, Germaine, 1939- Bloomsbury, 2014. Call #: 333.7516 G816w Subjects Greer, Germaine, 1939- -- Homes and haunts -- Australia -- Queensland, South East.   Rain forests -- Conservation and restoration -- Australia -- Queensland, South East.   Rain forests -- Australia -- Queensland, South East.   Women authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.   Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.   Feminists -- Australia -- Biography.   Conservationists -- Australia -- Biography. ISBN:  9781620406113 (hc.) 162040611X (hc.) Description:  xii, 370 p. : map ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 344-353) and index. Contents:  Prologue -- The tree -- Eden -- Desert -- The bird -- The forest -- The traditional owners -- The pioneer -- Timber -- Cream -- Bloody botanists -- Bananas -- Nuts -- The inhabitants : non-furry -- The inhabitants : furry -- Epilogue. Summary:  "In 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 its 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, which had been almost totally 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. Germaine Greer, Australian feminist, journalist, literary scholar and art historian is the author of The Female Eunuch and Shakespeare's Wife. For the past dozen years she has been restoring a damaged rain forest in her native Australia"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 333.7516 G816w Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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