White Beech by Germaine Greer - 9781408846735

Name: White Beech by Germaine Greer - 9781408846735
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

White BeechThe Rainforest Years\nAuthor(s): Germaine Greer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\nISBN-13: 9781408846735, 978-1408846735\nSynopsis\nA memoir of a love affair with the forest and her native Australia, White Beech is Germaine Greer's most personal book yet\n\n'A powerful account of Greers attempt to reverse the calamitous environmental impact of Australian history on one patch of land ... Greer remains a winning, funny, indomitable figure throughout, and it is fascinating to follow her as she works through so much of her messy, complicated relationship with Australia' Financial Times\n\nOne bright day in December 2001, sixty-two-year-old Germaine Greer found herself confronted by an irresistible challenge in the shape of sixty hectares of dairy farm, one of many in south-east Queensland that, after a century of logging, clearing and downright devastation, had been abandoned to their fate. \n\n She di.