World Heritage Sites of Australia

2nd Edition

Peter Valentine, Bob Brown

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National Library of Aust.
01 September 2023

The Earth: natural history general; Travel & holiday

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- There are 20 listings on the World Heritage register for Australia (although two cover multiple locations - Convict sites and fossil mammal sites). Each is given 14 pages in this large book with concise overviews, personal impressions and the process of the listings. The many photographs capture the magnificence, beauty and wonderful details of these precious places. A splendid production! Lindy

Visitors to Australia marvel when they see the places recognised by the United Nations as World Heritage. From the ancient, pristine temperate rainforests in the south to the massive escarpments and tropical wetlands in the north, they are dazzling in their ecological complexity and the record they offer of life on this planet and the human experience in Australia.

Peter Valentine presents Australia’s World Heritage sites in a magnificent tribute to natural and cultural history. The outstanding qualities of each site are described and illustrated in exquisite detail, along with an account of how the site came to be on the World Heritage List. Rainforests that show the connections of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana. Rock art that points to a history of human settlement reaching over 60,000 years into the past. Sandstone remnants of eighty years of convict labour and imprisonment. A marvel of twentieth-century architecture. This is Australia’s world heritage.

A testament to his decades of involvement in World Heritage, Valentine includes in each chapter a reflection on his observations, involvement with or connection to each site, from a conversation with the late Kakadu Elder Bill Neidjie to diving on the Great Barrier Reef and developing safe protocols for swimming with the whale sharks at the Ningaloo Coast.

By: Peter Valentine
Foreword by: Bob Brown
Imprint: National Library of Aust.
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 221mm, Width: 280mm,
ISBN: 9781922507587
ISBN 10: 192250758X
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active