Into the Woods : The Battle for Tasmania's Forests.
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- 9781921870545
- 363.70
- SD243 -- .K754 2012eb
Winner of the Literary or Media Award Advancing Public Debate in the 2011 QLD Premier's Literary Awards and the People's Choice Award in the 2011 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards For many years, the Tasmanian wilderness has been the site of a fierce struggle. At stake is the future of old-growth forests. Loggers and police face off with protesters deep in the forest, while savage political games are played in the courts and parliaments. In Into the Woods, Anna Krien, armed with a notebook, a sleeping bag and a rusty sedan, ventures behind the battlelines to see what it is like to risk everything for a cause. She speaks to ferals and premiers, sawmillers and whistle-blowers. She investigates personalities and convictions, methods and motives. This is a book about a company that wanted its way and the resistance that eventually forced it to change. Updated with a new afterword, Into the Woods is intimate, intrepid reporting by a fearless new voice. 'Anna Krien's intimate, urgent book pulsates with life and truth.' - Chloe Hooper 'Anna Krien in Australia's young, female Hunter S. Thompson.' - Amanda Lohrey 'Closely observed and beautifully written.' - the Monthly 'A beautifully wrought, deeply thoughtful on-the-ground look at the struggle over Tasmania's forests' - Bookseller + Publisher Shortlisted for the 2011 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the 2011 WA Premier's Literary Awards, the Australian Book Industry Awards and for the Blake Dawson Business Literature Prize. Anna Krien is the author of Night Games, Into the Woods and Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them. Her work has been published in the Monthly, the Age, the Big Issue, The Best Australian Essays, The Best Australian Stories, Griffith Review, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging, Colors, Frankie and Dazed & Confused.
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