Australia

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AISTRALIA
A TIMELESS GRANDEUR
There is a place in Australia where you can climb among the decaying rock towers of an ancient bed of sandstone, sonic '?000 niillion years old, andßnd there one of the ivorld's rarest and most brilliantly coloured grasshoppers. Or you can walk along a lonely coastline and come upon dome-like stone "cities" that are still being built by primitive algae. Or abseil into the darkness of a magnificent cave wlicre nature has created dazzling treasures of unbelievable beauty and size.
Australia has a strange and lonely grandeur.
In a world where natural landscapes are fast disappearing, the country is fortunate in retaining large tracts of walderncss that are substantially free ii-oni the impact of man. They are peaceful places that have changed little in thousands of years and their bcautv is felt by all the senses.
The Knglish author, D. H. Lawrence called this quality an im'L'iible bcautv — subtle, remote and
more poignant than anWhing ever... Tovább

Fülszöveg

AISTRALIA
A TIMELESS GRANDEUR
There is a place in Australia where you can climb among the decaying rock towers of an ancient bed of sandstone, sonic '?000 niillion years old, andßnd there one of the ivorld's rarest and most brilliantly coloured grasshoppers. Or you can walk along a lonely coastline and come upon dome-like stone "cities" that are still being built by primitive algae. Or abseil into the darkness of a magnificent cave wlicre nature has created dazzling treasures of unbelievable beauty and size.
Australia has a strange and lonely grandeur.
In a world where natural landscapes are fast disappearing, the country is fortunate in retaining large tracts of walderncss that are substantially free ii-oni the impact of man. They are peaceful places that have changed little in thousands of years and their bcautv is felt by all the senses.
The Knglish author, D. H. Lawrence called this quality an im'L'iible bcautv — subtle, remote and
more poignant than anWhing ever experienced before". It is also a secret beauty, for althougli there is an apparent sameness and overall unit\' about the Australian landscape — brought by the sheer size of the various geographic en\'ironments and bv a superficial homogcneitv of \'cgetation — the countr\' in fact has areas of great diversit}'.
Australia. A Timeless Grandeur reveals this special beaut\' and character of the continent bv presenting many ol its most impressive natural landscapes. Some areas, such as Ayers Rock and tlie (ircat Barrier Reef, are familiar to most people. But others are little known . the superb Kubla Klian Cave and the severely sculptured Acropolis in Tasmania; tlie circulcir Gosse's Bluif, thrown up millions of years ?ig(j in central Australia by an exploding comet; the rare structures of the Shark Biiv Stromatolites in Western Australia; and the wild paradise of Ai-nhcm Land at the \'cn' top end of the Northern rerritor\'.
Tlirough powerful, yet sensitive j)ictures and text, the autliors depict the essencc of tliese magniticcnt wild places. They outline the geological structure, climate, vegetation and wildlife of each area and also show man's relationship \\nth the land, from the early Aboriginal occupation, through the coming of the European to the present dav.
Austridia, A Timeless Grandeur is a diilercnt and iasciiKiting book. It s])lendidly portrays the uni(}uc beauty and true diversit\' of the cx)untn's natural landscaj)e. It gives, too. an important warning that Australia's precious wiklcrness areas are fi-agile and can be destroved. ' n Vissza