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Book launch - The Zealous Conservator: A Life of Charles Lane Poole
The ANU Co-op Bookshop invites you to celebrate the book launch of The Zealous Conservator: A Life of Charles Lane Poole by John Dargavel and published by University of Western Australia Press. ISBN 978 1 921401 14 5.
To be launched by Dr Nicholas Brown, Australian Dictionary of Biography and National Museum of Australia.
Chaired by Professor Peter Kanowski, Fenner School of Environment and Society.
From 5pm on Thursday 30 October 2008
Australian National University Co-op Bookshop
17 Union Court, Canberra
RSVP is essential to Lucy on (02) 6249 6244 or email anu@coop-bookshop.com.au by 22 October 2008
About the book
A fascinating biography of a passionate pioneer of Australian conservation, hailed in 1981 by Western Australian Premier Sir Charles Court as the 'founder of modern forestry'.
Charles Edward Lane Poole is presented as a man so captured by the ideals of forestry, science and rational land use that he followed their dictates across the world, regardless of personal consequences or political reality.
The story follows his life, studies and work in England, Ireland, France, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Western Australia, Papua and New Guinea, Canberra and Sydney.