An ecologist, illustrator and writer, White contributed articles, photographs and illustrations to a wide variety of Australian and English magazines. White also wrote On Public View : A Selection of London's Open-Air Sculpture (1971) with illustrations by R. Gloucester. It was presented in 1969 as a thesis for the Postgraduate Diploma at the Cambridge University School of Architecture. White also wrote the text for Pro Hart's Legendary Tasmania (1982) and a number of travel guides on England and Tasmania.
