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Australia's wild weather / Mark Tredinnick.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2011.Description: 155 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cmISBN:
  • 9780642277237 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.9495516 22
LOC classification:
  • QC992.A1 T74 2011
Summary: Marrying photographs from the collection of the National Library of Australia with an evocative and contemplative essay by poet Mark Tredinnick, Australia's Wild Weather is a lyric field guide to Australia's climate. Tredinnick considers what it means to be living at time when weather is no longer small talk; it is most of the news. Beautifully written, the author contemplates what weather means to us and how it affects our daily lives.
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Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Non-Fiction large size 704.949 TRE Available 065812
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Includes images by well-known photographers such as Olive Cotton, Max Dupain, Harold Cazneaux, Frank Hurley and Peter Dombrovskis.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-149) and index.

Marrying photographs from the collection of the National Library of Australia with an evocative and contemplative essay by poet Mark Tredinnick, Australia's Wild Weather is a lyric field guide to Australia's climate. Tredinnick considers what it means to be living at time when weather is no longer small talk; it is most of the news. Beautifully written, the author contemplates what weather means to us and how it affects our daily lives.

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