Reviews for WILDFIGHT : A HISTORY OF CONSERVATION.

The average rating for WILDFIGHT : A HISTORY OF CONSERVATION. based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-10-18 00:00:00 Blayne Haubrich I read this because it was the only Australian history book I could get my hands on at the time. It's...a history. It gives you facts and data and if you want to know something about Australia's past and don't have other resources, it gets the job done. But if you want a GOOD history of Australia (read: interesting), try The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding. Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country is also sprinkled with fascinating, often humorous, bits of Australian history.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-01-02 00:00:00 fernando vielma Manning 'The Mystic' Clark condenses 200 years of Australian History into a series of edifying myths about the colonies and the political confrontations since federation. Propelled by Clark's Dostoevskyian impulse to mythologise Australia's political greats by artfully imagining their inner turmoil, 'A Short History's inclination toward the cosmic cannot slough off the trappings of 20th century scholarship. It is a professedly political history that ignores radical politics. Women are completely absent, migrant stories are mentioned as a statistic but never investigated, and the cause of Indigenous Australians is treated with exceptional cruelty. Clark reduces these issues to the structure of Australia's society of 'ruthless men', rather than a problem his scholarship acknowledges but never attempts to overcome.