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The tranquil seagrass meadow seems a safe place for Gentle Dugong and his aquatic undersea friends to play until one day a trawler with its scoop net appears.
Literary Representations of the Great Barrier ReefStephen Torre,
2008single work criticism — Appears in:
Etropic : Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics,vol.
7no.
2008;'Over two centuries the sublime power of the Great Barrier Reef is gradually diminished in discourse, as naturalists become scientists and ecologists, as maritime navigation becomes less dangerous, as explorers became industrialists and tourists, and as poets, novelists philosophers and other imaginative thinkers and writers begin to turn their attention to exploring the beauty of the reef.'
Literary Representations of the Great Barrier ReefStephen Torre,
2008single work criticism — Appears in:
Etropic : Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics,vol.
7no.
2008;'Over two centuries the sublime power of the Great Barrier Reef is gradually diminished in discourse, as naturalists become scientists and ecologists, as maritime navigation becomes less dangerous, as explorers became industrialists and tourists, and as poets, novelists philosophers and other imaginative thinkers and writers begin to turn their attention to exploring the beauty of the reef.'