Land of Flowers

Land of Flowers
ISBN: 9781876928452
Publication Date: 9 September 2013

In the 1980s Irene Cunningham purchased a small acreage in Western Australia. She planned to run a few sheep, grow olives, grapes and tomatoes and plant a cottage garden. But, faced with a history of ecological and sociological destruction, she gave up her plans and handed her land back to nature. Considered and meticulously researched, this book combines one womans moving, personal reconnection to nature with a confronting story of invasion, dispossession and misuse. It is a book about the Australian landscape, its beautiful flora and fauna, and its peoples, both ancient and modern. It shows us what we have lost, what we stand to lose, and where we could go in the future.