'Australia's remarkable trees is ... remarkable ... both writer and photographer have caught the mood of each tree, with the reader almost able to smell the leaves and touch the bark.' The Weekly Times
A single Huon pine on the slopes of Mount Read in Western Tasmania has been growing for at least 10,000 years.
Crowned the giant of the eucalypt family, many of Australia's mountain ash stand as tall as a 30-storey skyscraper. Australia has five of the top ten tallest tree species in the world.
The discovery in 1994 of a small stand of Wollemi pines that have been regenerating for millions of years—surviving bushfires and at least seventeen ice ages—prompted Professor Carrick Chambers, director of Sydney's Botanic Gardens, to announce that it was the 'equivalent of finding a small dinosaur alive on Earth'.
Australia's Remarkable Trees by Richard Allen and Kimbal Baker Softcover 2010
