- Title:
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Summertime: Reflections On a Vanishing Future (MP3)
- Written by:
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Danielle Celermajer
- Read by:
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Felicity Jurd
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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3 hours 45 minutes
- MP3 size:
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137 MB
- Published:
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February 02 2021
- Available Date:
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February 02 2021
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781867515678
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Climate; Environment & Conservation; Nature
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Penguin Audio Australia
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Written in part during, and in part immediately after the Black Summer fires of 2019-2020 in Australia, Summertime is an attempt to write both as a philosopher and from the place of direct experience.
'I went and sat alone where Jimmy has been lying. It is way down in the bush. The light is soft, the air and the earth are cool and the smell is of leaves and the river. I cannot presume to know what he is doing when he lies here, but it seems that he is taking himself back to an ecology not wrought by the terror of the fires, not fuelled by our violence on the earth. He is letting another earth heal him.'
Philosopher Danielle Celermajer’s story of Jimmy the pig caught the world’s attention during the Black Summer of 2019-20.
Gathered here is that story and others written in the shadow of the bushfires that ravaged Australia. In the midst of the death and grief of animals, humans, trees and ecologies Celermajer asks us to look around – really look around – to become present to all beings who are living and dying through the loss of our shared home.
At once a howl in the forest and an elegy for a country’s soul, these reflections are lyrical, profound and heartbreaking.
'For anyone who takes comfort in the companionship of the animals, the swift grace of birds, the grandeur of tress ... Read this. Now.'
Geraldine Brooks, bestselling author