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BENDIGO’S BACKYARD BIRDS – A NEW TITLE NOW AVAILABLE

From the cover blurb……

This is a book of bird appreciation, not of bird identification. If you are new to Bendigo, or new to bird-watching, this little publication is bound to stimulate your interest. As the authors point out, we share our city with a great range of birds, most of them native and many of them exhibiting extraordinary beauty.
The book does not pretend to supply a full description in the manner of some of the better known published accounts. Rather, it is simply an attempt to show, however inadequately, the great beauty of a selection of our native birds. A further modest aim is to show that, given a little foresight and empathy, it is possible for us as humans to live with our extraordinary feathered friends, to the mutual advantage of both. Like most other things, in the matter of wildlife conservation it is always preferable to start with your own back yard!
Both authors are long-term Bendigo residents and both have a great love for our feathered friends, with whom we share the urban environment.

This hard-copy book of 125 pages is now available at selected bookshops – Stoneman’s Castlemaine, Aesop’s Attic Kyneton, and Bookish in Bendigo.   The book features a great range of mainly native birds with photographs in full colour and on quality paper. Enquiries via ‘contact’ form on this site.

Eastern Spinebill

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Campaspe Book Now Available

From Mountains to the Murray: The Campaspe River and Her People

by Brian Coman and Harry Oldmeadow

This book is now available in a commercially printed softcover version.

Description:

Beginning its journey on the southern slopes of the Great Dividing Range above the small hamlet of Ashbourne, the Campaspe River winds its way north, through fertile farming country and striking gorges until it reaches Lake Eppalock. Below the dam wall it continues its journey north, slowly transforming itself into the characteristic ‘look’ of most inland rivers in southern Australia—lined with large Redgums and steep-banked. Its journey ends at Echuca on the Murray
This account of the river, delivered as a series of snapshots—both literal and in words, blends natural history with social history in a personal and very readable account of the river. The author, Brian Coman, was born and raised on a farm at South Kyneton and spent a good part of his working life as a biologist in the middle section of the catchment. Although coming from a scientific background, the author has here given us an avowedly personal account, with a minimum of scientific jargon and tedious statistics.
The photographer, Harry Oldmeadow has collaborated with Brian Coman on two previous books. His long-term interest in landscape photography is here put to good use in providing many beautiful photographs of the river in its various moods. A former Associate Professor in the Humanities, Harry shares, with Brian Coman, an appreciation of the objective nature of Beauty in the traditional, metaphysical sense.

Available locally at Aesop’s Attic, Kyneton, Bookish Bendigo and Stoneman’s bookroom, Castlemaine.

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ALONG THE COLIBAN – Soft Cover Format Only. REPRINT NOW SOLD OUT

May be available at Aesop’s Attic, Kyneton, or Stoneman’s Bookroom, Castlemaine.

Here is the cover blurb for the book:

Here in words and pictures is an account of the Coliban River on its journey through both landscape and time. The author and photographer follow the river from its source in the Wombat Forest above Trentham in Victoria to its final destination at Lake Eppalock.
The account, richly illustrated with photographs, blends natural history with social history in a personal and very readable account of the river. The author, Brian Coman, was born and raised near the Coliban Reservoir at South Kyneton and spent a good part of his working life as a biologist in the middle section of the Coliban catchment, centred on Metcalfe. Although coming from a scientific background, the author has here given us an avowedly personal account, free from scientific jargon and tedious statistics.
Harry Oldmeadow, by contrast, has no previous association with the river, but his long-term interest in landscape photography is here put to good use in providing many stunning photographs of the river in its various moods. A former Associate Professor in the Humanities, Harry shares, with Brian Coman, an appreciation of the objective nature of Beauty in the traditional, metaphysical sense. This sense of the beauty of the natural order pervades Oldmeadow’s work as a photographer.