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'Nature writing has never been more popular. In recent years it has become an international publishing phenomenon, with titles such as Helen Macdonald's 'H is for Hawk' (Jonathan Cape, 2014), Robert Macfarlane's 'Landmarks' (Hamish Hamilton, 2015), Amy Liptrot's 'The Outrun' (Canongate, 2016) and Sy Montgomery's 'How to be a Good Creature' (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018) scoring significant worldwide success. Australia, too, has its own rich history of nature writing. For more than a century, nature writing was 'the' primary literature for writing the country; a vital part of the ongoing process, for settler-Australians, of coming to feel at home in what were initially unfamiliar environments, and of creating a sense of national identity around them. Yet, today, nature writing is not widely known or understood here, and it's apparent that more Australians have read 'H is for Hawk' (18,000 copies sold so far according to Bookscan) than any of our own contemporary works.' (Publication abstract)
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- Land of Wonder : The Best of Australian Nature Writing 1964 single work
- Childhood at Brindabella : My First Ten Years 1962 single work autobiography
- A Place on Earth : An Anthology of Nature Writing from Australia and North America 2003 anthology essay prose
- The Blue Plateau : A Landscape Memoir 2009 single work prose
- The Joy of the Earth 1969 single work autobiography
- The Lake's Apprentice 2014 selected work poetry
- A Million Wild Acres : 200 Years of Man and an Australian Forest 1981 single work non-fiction