A wide & open land : walking the last of Western Sydney's woodlands
Ridgeway, Peter A.2021
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"In the Winter of 2019 Peter Ridgeway set out to walk 179 kilometres across the Cumberland Plain, the region of rural land west of Sydney. Carrying his food and water and camping under the stars, he crossed one of the least-known landscapes in Australia, all within view of its largest city. This book recounts a unique journey across a landscape few Australians will ever see. In this open country the familiar forests of Sydney's sandstone are replaced by a fertile world of open woodlands, native grasslands and wetlands, home to some of the Nation's most unique and endangered wildlife. The traditional land of the Darug, Gundungurra, and Dharawal peoples, and the birthplace of the first Australian colony, it is a landscape which also holds the key to our entwined and conflicted origins. What was once a limitless tract of woodland is now being engulfed by the city to it's east in the largest construction project ever undertaken in the Southern Hemisphere - the elimination of an ecosystem and a community. This book provides an immersion in the history, wildlife, and culture of one of Australia's most rapidly vanishing landscapes, and reveals how the destruction of 'the West' is erasing not only itself, but something central to the identity of all Australians." -- Back cover.
Main title:
A wide & open land : walking the last of Western Sydney's woodlands / by Peter Ridgeway.
Author:
Ridgeway, Peter A., author
Imprint:
Wentworth Falls, New South Wales : Peter Ridgeway, 2021.©2021.
Collation:
269 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Contents: I decide to take a walk - Cattai to Oakville - Oakville - Agnes Banks - Agnes Banks to Shanes Park - Shanes Park to Abbotsbury - Abbotsbury to Gledswood Hills - Gledswood Hills to Cobbitty - Cobbitty to Menangle - Menangle to Razorback - Razorback to Picton - Epilogue.
Dewey class:
333.74
Language:
English
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Subject:
Botany -- New South Wales -- Cumberland PlainEnvironmental protection -- New South Wales -- Cumberland PlainForest ecology -- Protection -- New South Wales -- Cumberland PlainForests and forestry -- New South Wales -- Cumberland PlainHiking -- New South Wales -- Cumberland PlainNatural areas -- Management -- New South Wales -- Cumberland PlainNatural areas -- New South Wales -- Cumberland Plain -- ManagementWildlife conservation -- New South Wales -- Cumberland PlainCumberland Plain (N.S.W.) -- Description and travel
BRN:
406410
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research | Local Book | 333.74 RID | Not for loan (Set: 14 May 2022) |