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em PRESS seeks to connect people to our own landscapes, rather than those elsewhere. To present Indigenous as well as settler perspectives in pursuit of a wider and deeper vision of Australia's 65,000 year old cultural heritage. To find ways we can live more sustainably – as our Indigenous forebears once did, and in some places, still strive to do. em PRESS has written and produced publications and essays on the interplay between the natural landscape and the cultural heritage of the central Victorian goldfields, the Grampians/Gariwerd ranges, and of Aboriginal language groups in Victoria and north-east Arnhem Land. Two award winning em PRESS books are highlighted IN PRINT. Tanya Loos' six season nature journal and wall calendar for the Wombat Forest is now discounted by 30% – check REVIEW. Refer to the OUT OF PRINT page for other publications and check out REVIEWS for in-depth appraisal. Books can be purchased by credit card via the SHOP ONLINE or you could visit one of the listed BOOKSHOPS selling em PRESS stock. A new menu of ESSAYS by writer and publisher Gib Wettenhall explores knotty environmental problems and inconvenient Indigenous issues ignored by the mainstream. *************************************** The latest essay puts the case for Indigenous cultural burning to be taken up by landowner's groups as an alternative environmental approach to large scale 'hazard' reduction burning. A short version is featured in the winter 2020 edition of the Victorian Landcare magazine – click here. Others in the series include:- Raising a green wood shed pleas for a return to lost crafts and localism; the enigma of Aboriginal standing stones is explored along with their appropriation by a bunch of Celts; A brief history of the slaughter of trees demonstrates how we don't seem to learn our environmental lessons; and Reimagining and reinventing our culture delves into aspects of animism and what it might have to teach us. *************************************** In June 2019, the Budj Bim landscape gained UNESCO World Heritage listing as Australia's first cultural landscape after 17 years negotiation. Written in collaboration with the Gunditjmara people, the award-winning The People of Budj Bim was reprinted in 2018. Visit the SHOP ONLINE. Note that overseas orders need to pay extra postage. *************************************** A 3rd reprint of The People of Gariwerd is now available at the Brambuk National Park shop in Halls Gap as well as via online – purchase here Still the only accessible Indigenous history of the Gariwerd/ Grampians ranges, the reprint was undertaken in association with the Brambuk National Park & Cultural Centre. Illustrated throughout, it is ideal for students and visitors to the ranges. *************************************** The biography of four times Paralympian, Kevin Combs, is out of print. An Indigenous role model, Kevin has just turned 70 years-old prompting sales that have cleared em PRESS of stock. Sorry about that! ************************************** A small reprint run of Daughter of Two Worlds by Gunditjmara descendant Dawn Lees is now in store on high quality gloss paper with improved photo contrast. Visit SHOP *************************************** Nature photographer Alison Pouliot has added the feather of seriously entertaining ecological author to her cap. She has brought out a quirky and informative tome on fungi, The Allure of Fungi, (CSIRO Publishing). Alison collaborated with em PRESS in bringing her 100 evocative images of the Grampians in our large format, high quality hardback Gariwerd:Reflecting on the Grampians. The photos were taken before the two big burns in the Gariwerd/Grampians ranges – still available for purchase in the SHOP '*************************************** Author and musician Craig Horne has a new book out Roots on the history of Melbourne's music venues. He gained rave reviews for his biography of Daddy Who, one of Australia's favourite rockbands, Daddy Cool. His first pair of novels Bureaucracy Blues and Alpha Jerk were published by em PRESS. Copies still available. Visit SHOP and NEWS ************************************** |
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