Backbencher

Authors Neil Nightingale, Jeni Clevers, Hugh Pearson, and Mary Summerill bring aesthic beauty and scientific enrichment together in a harmonious blend in this text!! This was written in 2003, a much more recently updated book that the Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, a previous post! If you are a student taking Hist 381 looking for an easy read filled with gorgeous photographs depicting the landscape, and animals of Australia and New Zealand, I highly suggest reading this book!! It can be found in the NDSU Library in the HQ196 section!! There were so many good things about this text that I could not possibly list them all, however, I found it very interesting with entertaining and scientific statistics. For example, it states the "part of the coast of Wester Australia receives an average of about 10 hours of sunshine every day, making it one of the sunniest places on the planet!!" I suppose that’s how Australian’s came up with the Sunshine Coast University title! ☺ The topics range from bush burning and natural landscapes to "Magical forests, strange creatures." I do not really have any bad things to say about this book! In fact, it would be a great addition to my Australian and New Zealand collection!!! Again, this would be a great suggestion for students taking this class in the future…it should definitely be on the Book list!