The Gardeners of Eden and Monash in Review
A critic questions Alistair Graham’s The Gardeners of Eden and his psychoanalytic take on conservation, arguing selective biology, overemotionalism, and flawed reasoning undermine its insights into wildlife management. The Monash profile by A J Smithers is deemed muddled, with errors, sparse maps, and a pro‑Monash bias despite notable battlefield moments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alistair Graham
Aillen and Unwin
Hanis
Jackdrop
Maris
Monash
Gallipoli
France
Bean
Smithers
Hamel
Amiens
Hindenburgh Line
Mont St Quentin
Lee
Grant
Wellington
Vitoria
John Monash
One Volume Introduction to the History of Japan
Mason and Caiger produce the best single volume English introduction to Japanese history. They balance political cultural and economic threads with engaging clarity, noting limitations like insularity and omitted figures while guiding readers toward original sources. The book should be prescribed reading in schools and universities handling the subject.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Jand
East Asia
Sansom
Japan
Richard Mason
John Caiger
Sengai
Ishikawa Takuboku
Asia
Last Things in the Strangers and Brothers Sequence
The final Strangers and Brothers novel by Sir Charles, Last Things, follows Sir Lewis Eliot delivering last judgments on his life after a five minute heart stop under anaesthetic for an eye operation. Flint’s disappointments meet new hope as his son Charles plans a bolder stand against the establishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. P. Now
Penguin
Sir Charles
Sir Lewis Eliot
Flint
Charles
The Erl King by Michel Tournier reviewed as symbol laden
A dense critique of The Erl King tracks Abel Ti Fauges’s belief in destiny and symbols driving history. The essay traces his capture by Germans, his role as game warden in East Prussia, and the book's six-part structure from youth to Prussian recruiter. The review highlights epistemology inspired by Proust, symbolic slaughter of hares, and iron black humour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graham
Freud
Gophe
Abel Tiffanges
Tile Fauges
Place de la Porte-des- Temes
Black Forest
Thuringia
Til- Fauges
France
East Brussia
Third Reich
Reich
Abel Tile Fauges
Kaltenborn
Abel Ti Fauges
Marcel Proust
Proust
Tournier
Rominten
Goblin recalls Reichsmarschall Goerig at Rominten hunt
Game Warden Tiffanges notes Goerig’s limited hunting skill but praises his coprology talent reading animal droppings. An arid novelist’s eye vignette follows detailing the Reichsmarschall pursuing scent, interwoven with Tiffanges’s reflections on Nester and his nocturnal defecation sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tiffanges
Reichmarschall Goerig
Rominten
Reich
Nester
Way-out fiction in Picador line promises revolt in the classroom
The new Picadors offer Peter Buckmans Playground as savage and prophetic fiction about revolution in the classroom. Richard Brautigan In Watermelon Sugar follows a generation rejecting old gang violence and living in watermelon sugar. Beckett Murphy plus Coover Pricksongs and Descant round out the list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Buckman
Picador
Richard Brautigan
Samuel Beckett
Robert Coover
Authors in an Alien Land a Western Australian critique
A dense review of Sandgropers Western Australian anthology and William Light by George Finkel. The critique notes prose's strengths in capturing lonely frontier life and Australian paranoia while finding poetry weak and the Light biography flawed yet engaging in part.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Durrell
Australia
Deserts
Great Southern Ocean
Nullarbor Plain
Indian Ocean
Western Australia
Dorothy Hewett
University of Western Australia
William Light
George Finkel
Angus and Robertson
Geoff Wells
Adelaide
First Fleet and Sydney Cove 1788 92 Reviewed
A review lauds Barnard Eldershaw's The First Fleet as the best comprehensive account of the Sydney Cove settlement 1788 92 written largely from journals and records. It praises its documentation and historical imagination and notes its enduring value in Australian prose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney Cove
Angus and Robertson
First Fleet
Barnard Eldershaw
Reminiscences of Tolmer’s Adventurous Career in SA and Abroad
The work recounts Alexander Tolmer’s life from 1832 35 in Portugal’s civil war to service in the British Army and South Australian Mounted Police. It details robberies cattle stealing murders clashes with Aborigines pursuits of desperadoes and goldfield fires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Library of
South Australia
Alexander Tolmer
Tolmer
Portugal
South Australian Mounted Police
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Chris Bryant
Auther
A. 3. P. Taylor
Abdel Rahman Ridge
Sir John Monash
A. J. Smithers
Angus and Roberton
E. Turner
Somme
Marne
Marshal Foch
Mangin
Estienne
Paris
Ben Shahn
John D. Morse
Secker and Warburg
Shahn
New York
Jonathan
China
Mason
J. Cassell
K.H. J. Gardiner
Michel Tournier
Collins
John Hay
Goblin
Prester John
Kalgoorlie
Hal Colebatch
Perth
Swan River
Sam
Greg Osborn
Goldfield
Castlemains
Vic
Toria
Castlemaine
Old Residents’ Association
Barnard Elder
Shaw
Phillip of
Anseas
Goulburn
N.S.W
Ransome T. Wyatt
Lansdowne
Nutting —_Nesser
Tolkien
Science
Craft Potters and Enamallers
Arrison
East Row
Canberra City
TYG
Ayer
Isa Street
Pyahwick
Funteet Guaran
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