Back from the Brink: How Australia's Landscape Can Be Saved - Softcover

Peter Andrews

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0733319629 ISBN 13: 9780733319624

Publisher: ABC Books, 2007

Synopsis

Peter Andrews is a racehorse breeder and farmer credited with remarkable success in converting degraded, salt-ravaged properties into fertile, drought-resistant pastures. His methods are so at odds with conventional scientific wisdom that for 30 years he has been dismissed and ridiculed as a madman. He has faced bankruptcy and family break-up. But now, on the brink of ecological disaster, leading politicians, international scientists and businessmen are beating a path to his door as they grapple with how best to alleviate the affects of drought on the Australian landscape. Described as a man who reads and understands the Australian landscape better than most scientists, supporters of Peter Andrews claim he has done what no scientist ever thought to do - he has restored streams and wetlands to the way they were before European settlement interfered with them. The startling results of his natural sequence farming are said to have been achieved very cheaply, simply and quickly.

Edition details

• Publisher: ABC Books
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0733319629
• ISBN 13: 9780733319624
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244