The Great Forest: The rare beauty of the Victorian Central Highlands

by David Lindenmayer

Chris Taylor (Photographer), Sarah Rees (Photographer), and Steve Kuiter (Photographer)

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The city of Melbourne lies on the edge of a vast plain surrounded by a green and blue mountainous rim, whose hills and peaks are home to the magnificent Mountain Ash, the tallest flowering plant on the planet. The Mountain Ash forests were 20 million years in the making, and deep within the valleys are even more ancient, Gondwanic rainforests. The Great Forest showcases these forests as well as the world's tallest moss, breathtaking snow gum plateaus and the remnants of massive extinct volcanoes.

The Great Forest is a tribute to extraordinary landscapes now under severe threat from...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781760879822
  • Publish Date 31 August 2021
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 7 March 2024
  • Publish Country AU
  • Imprint Allen & Unwin