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The Reef: the Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to climate change

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By (author): Iain McCalman

Iain McCalmans brilliant history of the Great Barrier Reef, told in 12 extraordinary tales, charts its shifting status from labyrinth of terror to global treasure.

Equal parts gifted storyteller and acclaimed historian, McCalman brings to life the people whove shaped our knowledge and perception of this World Heritage listed site. He describes encounters between peoples and places, ideas and environments, over the past two centuries and more.

Where today the Reef is known for its astonishing underwater beauty and diversity, once it was notorious for the shipwrecks in its treacherous waters. Scientists theorised about the creation of this massive structure, and the fiery debate between Darwinists and creationists caught the worlds attention. Then came successive waves of resource hunters and exploiters, followed by beachcombers and artists who fought to stop them, and the marine specialists who first became aware of the threats to the Reefs survival. In between, the Indigenous peoples of the Reef gave succour to castaways such as Eliza Fraser, and were then vilified for it.

The first social, cultural, and environmental history to be written of the Great Barrier Reef, The Reef is an effortlessly readable and often moving story of one of the seven natural wonders of the world.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Jun 2014
  • Publisher: Scribe Publications
  • Publication City/Country: Australia
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781922247414

About Iain McCalman

IAIN MCCALMAN is Professor of History at the University of Sydney. He is the author of eight previous books including Darwins Armada and The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro. He is also the editor of The Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age.

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