Her sister Alida Jane Burke, and her husband Peter have let her drone on about the forest for hours without complaint; her brother Barry and his family have shown an abiding confidence in the value of the project even when she was wavering. Professor Jenny Morton has done her considerable best to turn the author into a scientist. The author’s surrogate Fink family, especially Leon and Margaret, and Hannah Fink and her husband Andrew Shapiro, have helped her in every imaginable way. Don and Janet Holt were charming and hospitable hosts at Delmore Downs. Erwin and Adrienne Weber have served the cause of sustainability much longer than she has, and she values their example and advice. Judy Diamond and Kerry Broome have been good mates and have kept a watching brief at Cave Creek.
Above all, she thanks the denizens of the Cave Creek rainforest, vegetable and animal; their lust for life is what has transformed her uncertain efforts to rebuild the forest into a triumph over the forces of depletion. This it is that makes her dare to hope that it is not too late to save this most enchanting of small planets.
A Note on the Author
Germaine Greer is an Australian academic and journalist, and a major feminist voice of the mid-twentieth century. She gained her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1967. She is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick. Greer’s ideas have created controversy ever since The Female Eunuch became an international bestseller in 1970. She is the author of many other books including Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (1984); The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause (1991); The Whole Woman (1999) and Shakespeare’s Wife (2007).
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