{"product_id":"what-the-trees-see-by-dave-witty","title":"What the Trees See by Dave Witty","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.cs5CC07D4{margin:12pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:0pt} .cs1EFB4FB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:italic;Times New Roman;} .cs3270F94{margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:0pt} .cs982313B{12pt;font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Times New Roman;} .cs97DFFCB{12pt;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;font-style:normal;Times New Roman;}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs5CC07D4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs982313B\"\u003e**Shortlisted, Mark \u0026amp; Evette Moran Nib Literary Award 2024**\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs5CC07D4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs982313B\"\u003eA stunning meditation on the remarkable insights that Australia’s trees can offer into our past\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3270F94\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003eThe trees around us – some we may walk past every day – tell a story. The mallee box by the twelfth hole of North Adelaide Golf Course evokes a time when Adelaide was clothed in mallee scrub and desert senna. Brisbane’s remnant blue gum, growing by the botanic gardens, indicates a time when the city was once jungle. The river red gums of Melbourne bear the scars of Aboriginal craftmanship. Mangroves, Leichhardt trees, acacias, eucalypts, foxtails…together, they inspire a narrative that jumps from Burke and Wills to sugar slaves, Empress Josephine to Johnny Flinders. Eucalypts reveal lost cultures and lost children. Cabbage palms tell of incomparable migrations. In the spirit of Bob Gilbert’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs1EFB4FB\"\u003eGhost Trees\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand Don Watson’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs1EFB4FB\"\u003eThe Bush\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs97DFFCB\"\u003e, this book explores how our trees hold our history and reveal it to us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Kangaroo Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67588085186648,"sku":"9781922633842","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/8343\/1000\/files\/9781922633842_1.jpg?v=1790735248","url":"https:\/\/redkangaroobooks.au\/products\/what-the-trees-see-by-dave-witty","provider":"Red Kangaroo Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}