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Australian Alps

Australian Alps Edition 3

Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks

Deirdre Slattery
Paperback
April 2025
9781486318841
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  • Publisher
    CSIRO Publishing
  • ISBN 9781486318841
  • Language English
  • Pages 328 pp.
  • Size 6" x 9"
  • Images 128 color photos, 30 b&w photos, 17 b&w illus.
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Australian Alps is a fascinating guide to Australia’s highest mountains and the extraordinary diversity, rich heritage and precious resource of the Australian Alps National Parks.

Covering Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks, author Deirdre Slattery explores the stories of the First Peoples, scientists, historians and conservationists who have worked to protect, raise awareness of and share their knowledge of this unique and important area.

This fully revised third edition details the mountains’ remarkable and unique natural features; how the rocks, soils, plants and animals have evolved over time; and the dependence of many Australians on their most valuable function – water catchment. Extensively illustrated with both historic and contemporary photographs, Australian Alps is an essential guide for anyone visiting or interested in this spectacular region.

Features:

  • Written by a leading expert in the natural and cultural values of the Australian Alps
  • Illustrated in full color featuring animals, plants and natural features
  • Covers the latest policies on the management of these Alpine National Parks
  • Discusses the active presence of Traditional Owners and their cultural connections to the mountains
  • Updates information on huts, recreation and issues relating to feral animals

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
Cultural sensitivity warning

1: Australia’s Alps – the Brindabellas, the Snowy Mountains and Victoria’s High Country
2: Alpine weather and climate
3: The shape of the Alps – geology, landform and soil
4: Alpine vegetation – what grows where?
5: Alpine animals
6: Aboriginal life in the Alps
7: Settlement and land use in the Alps – pastoralism
8: European science in the Australian Alps
9: Gold mining in the Alps
10: Source of the rivers – alpine water resources
11: Scientists, citizens and public servants – the road to conservation
12: Visiting the parks

Deirdre Slattery

Deirdre Slattery has been writing, teaching, talking and running field trips in and about the Australian Alps National Parks since 1989. She has been a member of several high-level advisory committees on alpine matters, and is the co-author of Kosciuszko: A Great National Park.

alpine; subalpine; Snowy Mountains; climate change; mountain history; catchment