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Most Referenced Works
Awards for Works
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Kindred : A Cradle Mountain Love Story
Melbourne
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Melbourne University Press
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2019
15633790
2019
single work
biography
'He was an Austrian immigrant; she came from Tasmania. He grew up beside the Carinthian Alps; she climbed mountains when few women dared. Their honeymoon glimpse of Cradle Mountain lit an urge that filled their waking hours. Others might have kept this splendour to themselves, but Gustav Weindorfer and Kate Cowle sensed the significance of a place they sought to share with the world. When they stood on the peak in the heat of January 1910, they imagined a national park for all.
'Kindred: A Cradle Mountain Love Story traces the achievements of these unconventional adventurers and their fight to preserve the wilderness where they pioneered eco-tourism. Neither lived to see their vision fully realised: the World Heritage listed landscape is now visited by 250,000 people each year. Award-winning journalist Kate Legge tells the remarkable story behind the creation of the Cradle Mountain sanctuary through the characters at its heart.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2019 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — History Book Award
- 2019 longlisted Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards — Tasmania Book Prize
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The Unexpected Elements of Love
Camberwell
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Viking
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2006
Z1286253
2006
single work
novel
Janet's a TV weather presenter. Sometimes she'll admit to liking the adrenalin and modest celebrity of the nightly news ... But now the weather seems to be invading her home. Her young son, Harry, is increasingly terrified by storms ... and her husband complains that their marriage is slowly drying up. Roy is scared of the weather, too. An acclaimed sculptor and father of Janet's oldest friend, he is working on the biggest commission of his life. When he feels the first splinterings of dementia he knows the creation will be his last. - Back cover
- 2007 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
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