The Death Of A Wombat
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the heart of Australia's wild bush country, where the ancient rhythms of the natural world play out with savage grace, The Death of a Wombat presents a rare and haunting meditation on Australian wildlife and the fragile beauty of the continent's native fauna. Written by Ivan Smith and brought to vivid life through the paintings, etchings, and line drawings of celebrated Australian artist Clifton Pugh — with a foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh — this work stands as both a literary and artistic testament to the creatures that define the Australian landscape. Smith's prose is elegiac and impassioned, chronicling the lives and deaths of wombats and their kindred species with a naturalist's precision and a poet's sensitivity, drawing readers deep into an ecosystem both timeless and imperilled. Pugh's striking artwork, raw and expressionistic in character, amplifies Smith's words with a visual intensity that transforms the book into a genuine work of collaborative art. Together, text and image argue powerfully for the conservation of Australia's unique wildlife, a cause that resonates as urgently today as it did upon the book's first publication. The imprimatur of the Duke of Edinburgh's foreword underscores the work's international significance, cementing its place as a landmark in Australian natural history literature. Will the creatures chronicled within these pages still roam the bush, or has the silence already begun to fall?
Author: Ivan Smith
Format: Hardback
Published: 1972, Wren
Genre: Australian history
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
At the heart of Australia's wild bush country, where the ancient rhythms of the natural world play out with savage grace, The Death of a Wombat presents a rare and haunting meditation on Australian wildlife and the fragile beauty of the continent's native fauna. Written by Ivan Smith and brought to vivid life through the paintings, etchings, and line drawings of celebrated Australian artist Clifton Pugh — with a foreword by H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh — this work stands as both a literary and artistic testament to the creatures that define the Australian landscape. Smith's prose is elegiac and impassioned, chronicling the lives and deaths of wombats and their kindred species with a naturalist's precision and a poet's sensitivity, drawing readers deep into an ecosystem both timeless and imperilled. Pugh's striking artwork, raw and expressionistic in character, amplifies Smith's words with a visual intensity that transforms the book into a genuine work of collaborative art. Together, text and image argue powerfully for the conservation of Australia's unique wildlife, a cause that resonates as urgently today as it did upon the book's first publication. The imprimatur of the Duke of Edinburgh's foreword underscores the work's international significance, cementing its place as a landmark in Australian natural history literature. Will the creatures chronicled within these pages still roam the bush, or has the silence already begun to fall?