The paperback version of Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve will be launched on Tuesday 17 May in Sydney as part of the the opening of Mandy Martin’s new exhibition Wanderers in the Desert of the Real 2011 at the Australian Gallery, Paddington. Guy Abrahams of CLIMARTE will be the main speaker. (Adjunct Professor) Mandy Martin and Libby Robin will also speak.
The Desert Channels book, edited by Libby Robin, Chris Dickman and Mandy Martin, is the centrepiece of a project that combines book, art exhibitions and web-based materials that explore the understandings of the distinctive Desert Channels country of south-western Queensland.
Read more about the book, including a full list of contributors, at the Desert Channels web site.
Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country. CSIRO Publishing. ISBN: 9780643096066.
Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country, edited by Libby Robin, Rob Heinsohn and Leo Joseph, has won the Whitley Medal, the nation’s most prestigious award for zoological publication. The editors received the Whitley Medal and Certificates on behalf of all the contributors at a special Whitley Awards ceremony at the Australian Museum in Sydney on the evening of Friday 18 September.
In Boom and Bust the authors draw on the natural history of Australia’s charismatic birds to explore the relations between fauna, people and environment. They consider changing ideas about deserts and how these have helped to understand birds and their behaviour in this driest of continents.
Named after Gilbert Whitley, an eminent Australian ichthyologist, the Whitley Medal is the highest ranked of the Whitley Awards presented by the Society and is reserved for work of outstanding quality that makes a landmark contribution to zoological knowledge.
Venue: A Suitable Book
Sunday 13th September
Historian, Professor John Merritt will introduce the author and the book. Champagne in the Bookshop at 6:30pm followed by dinner at the Wood Works Cafe.
Cost: Dinner $45 (BYO)
RSVP: A Suitable Book. Ph 02 6238 1648, E: asuitablebook@gmail.com by 9 September
