An eco-love letter about saving and reviving trees on her farm in Australia (The Times)
A powerful account of Greer's 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 (Evie Wyld, Financial Times)
A beautifully written book . Simple, effective descriptions of everything from pythons to pademelons, filled with telling detail, and no little amount of love and respect (Independent on Sunday)
We love: White Beech ... Her new book is written not by a passionate young feminist but by a woman in her seventies who has lost none of her energy to speak out for causes ... I am sure listeners will find her love of her motherland, and for her sister, both touching and revealing (Psychologies)
In 2001, the 62-year-old Greer took on the "irresistible" challenge of rehabilitating 60 hectares of a dairy farm in south-east Queensland, which after a century of logging, clearing and downright devastation had been abandoned to its fate. Seduced in particular by the few remaining white beech trees, this is her memoir both of this extraordinary project, and of her love affair with the forest and her native Australia (Bookseller)
Searching for somewhere to archive her papers, in 2001, Germaine Greer was taken to an abandoned dairy farm in Queensland. White Beech: The Rainforest Years tells the story of her decade-long battle to rehabilitate the damaged forest of white beeches and other trees she found there. Working with her sister, a botanist, she puts all her remarkable passion and a lot of money into the project (Conde Nast Traveller)
An extraordinary travelogue: a love letter to Germaine Greer's birth country and an intense biography of the land (Catholic Herald)
A hymn to botany as a discipline and a vehicle of heritage ... Even when she's lyrical, her botany is rigorous (New Statesman)
Wonderfully vivid descriptions of the forest ... The book is full of lovely lists of the wildlife that has returned (Eithne Farry, Sunday Express)
Passionate and eccentric... A lifetime of activism, bloody-mindedness, academic punctiliousness, men-baiting and solidarity has produced a wonderfully unexpected book (Sunday Times)
One 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.
She didn't think for a minute that by restoring the land she was saving the world. She was in search of heart's ease. Beyond the acres of exotic pasture grass and soft weed and the impenetrable curtains of tangled Lantana canes there were Macadamias dangling their strings of unripe nuts, and Black Beans with red and yellow pea flowers growing on their branches . and the few remaining White Beeches, stupendous trees up to forty metres in height, logged out within forty years of the arrival of the first white settlers. To have turned down even a faint chance of bringing them back to their old haunts would have been to succumb to despair. Once the process of rehabilitation had begun, the chance proved to be a dead certainty. When the first replanting shot up to make a forest and rare caterpillars turned up to feed on the leaves of the new young trees, she knew beyond doubt that at least here biodepletion could be reversed.
Greer describes herself as an old dog who succeeded in learning a load of new tricks, inspired and rejuvenated by her passionate love of Australia and of Earth, most exuberant of small planets.
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