Gardening & Environment Science & Nature Art, Design & Photography
Wild Rivers by Bob Brown gathers the Tasmanian wilderness into one art-quality picture book, pairing panoramic landscape photography with crisp narrative that celebrates Australia’s least-tamed waterways. First released in 1983, this illustrated hardcover has become a quiet classic among environment and photography titles, valued for both its visual drama and its early conservation voice.
The large-format images, protected by an intact dust jacket, showcase foaming rapids, ancient rainforests and quartz-sand beaches captured on film. From the Franklin to the Gordon, each river is presented as both travel inspiration and urgent environmental treasure, making the volume equally at home on a coffee table or in a young adult geography collection.
This copy is clean and tight: pages are free of writing and dog-ears, binding remains snug, and the book comes from a smoke-free home. A faint edge mark and two light scuffs are the only minor signs of age, leaving the illustrations bright and ready for another four decades of admiration.