The paperback version of Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve will be launched on Tuesday 17 May in Sydney as part of the the opening of Mandy Martin’s new exhibition Wanderers in the Desert of the Real 2011 at the Australian Gallery, Paddington. Guy Abrahams of CLIMARTE will be the main speaker. (Adjunct Professor) Mandy Martin and Libby [...]

Libby Robin, Chris Dickman, Mandy Martin CSIRO PUBLISHING, 352 pages, Hardback, Colour illustrations, ISBN:9780643097490, $59.95. Desert Channels is a book that combines art, science and history to explore the ‘impulse to conserve’ in the distinctive Desert Channels country of south-western Queensland. The region is the source of Australia’s major inland-flowing desert rivers. Some of Australia’s [...]