AustLit

'A breathtaking encounter with the magnificent rock country of Australia's iconic Kakadu National Park, from the highly acclaimed creators of Walking in Gagudju Country: Exploring the Monsoon Forest.

'From the author of the bestselling Walking with the Seasons in Kakadu comes this rich and fascinating book bringing together First Nations Australian knowledge and history with Western science. The second of a proposed series of three titles, with the final titles to focus on the floodplains.' (Publication summary)

'Walk with us through one of the Top End's magnificent monsoon forests, in Kakadu National Park, learning about the plants, animals and Kundjeyhmi culture along the way.

'When we go walking, we never know how long we will be, what we will hear and what we will see.

'We pack our bags with food and water, a billy and some matches to light a fire.

'We head off into the shady monsoon forest on the edge of the billabong.

'Diane Lucas, Ben Tyler and Emma Long share their knowledge and love of the Top End in this enchanting and accessible book about one of Australia's most ancient and beautiful ecosystems.'

Source : publisher's blurb

'Wan’kurra (Golden Bandicoot) are an animal that has disappeared from most of mainland Australia. Their last recorded sighting in the Northern Territory was in the 1950s. When hairs are discovered on Martjanba Island in scats of wild dogs, Aboriginal people of the Wessel Islands are asked about their knowledge of Wan’kurra and reveal the story.

'Can these small animals be brought back from the brink of extinction by translocating them to other islands?' (Publication summary)

A mother and son spend a day where the forest meets the sea when they spy an echidna...and through illustrator Colwyn Campbell's beautiful watercolours, readers engage in the life of one of the world's only two egg laying mammals.

'Takes the reader through a sensuous and enchanting moonlit landscape with one boy and his beloved brumbies ... the sense of place seeded with words from the Gun-djeihmi language, a place where local night creatures feed or rest, hunt or hide.' (Publication summary)