Australian Geographic Society & Culture-For the Love of Flora

“Charles Darwin got it wrong – so very wrong. As he sailed out of Western Australia’s King George Sound on HMS Beagle in 1836, he gazed back at an expanse of undulating hills covered in low, olive-green shrubbery and declared the region surrounding Albany in the south-west of Australia to be so “dull and uninteresting” that “[H]e who thinks like me will never wish to walk again in so uninviting a country.”

“Australia is one of the most biologically diverse countries on the planet. Thanks to its long period of isolation from the rest of the world, an unusually high number of species are endemic; that is, they are found nowhere else.”

Artistically photographed by Georgina Steytler, this book is an enchantment of our native Australian flora, celebrating its beauty and diversity – from the more familiar eucalypts and wattles to carnivorous sundew and secretive orchids.

Following on from her earlier book, For the Love of Birds, Georgina has turned her photographic eye for detail and wonder on some of Australia’s most underrated, but nevertheless vitally important, wild beauties. Snippets of natural and cultural history combine with amazing imagery and photographic tips to guide you through a botanical kaleidoscope of colour.

Features

• Beautiful, unique images by award-winning Australian photographer Georgina Steytler
• Professional insight into floral photography
• Includes First Nations names and uses of our native flora
• Important details on how we can help sustain our flora for the future

Hardcover 330 x 240mm, 240pp