World Heritage Sites of Australia
Peter Valentine
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.
Peter Valentine (IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas) presents Australia’s 19 World Heritage sites in a magnificent tribute to natural and cultural history. A celebration of the exceptional contribution Australian sites make to humanity’s collective legacy, it is also an entreaty to preserve them for future generations.
In his thoughtful foreword, former minister for the environment, heritage and the arts and Midnight Oil lead singer Peter Garrett describes his own experience of these wonders and concern for their continued existence.
You’d struggle to find a nicer looking book than Peter Valentine’s World Heritage Sites of Australia [1st edition].
This hefty volume contains page after page of the most intricate and delicate drawings and paintings...
- Release
- Sep-2023
- ISBN
- 9781922507587
- RRP (AUD)
- $59.99
- Format
- Hardback
- Category
- Enviroment
Peter Valentine
Peter Valentine is an adjunct professor at James Cook University, following an academic career in environmental management and conservation based in Townsville. He has been intensely involved in natural heritage across Australia and throughout the world for many decades.
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