Back From The Brink: How Australia's Landscape Can Be Saved

Gardening & Environment Biography & Memoir Australiana

Peter Andrews’ Back From The Brink: How Australia's Landscape Can Be Saved is a hopeful, practical call to restore degraded farmland and river systems using the slow-water principles the author pioneered on his own NSW property. This 2006 ABC Books paperback blends memoir, environmental science and geography to show how native plants, weeds and floodplains can work together to cool the continent and rebuild soil.

The 244-page narrative speaks to farmers, conservationists and everyday readers curious about regenerative agriculture and Australian nature. Andrews argues that drought-proofing the land is possible without costly engineering, sharing real-world trials and hard-won victories.

This second-hand copy is clean, tightly bound and from a smoke-free home; the front endpaper carries an inscription (not author-signed). Light page yellowing is the only sign of age, making it a solid reading or gift copy for anyone passionate about sustainable land care.