Elemental summer:
A season of change

Living with extremity as the new normal

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  • Published 20201103
  • ISBN: 978-1-922212-53-5
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

This is the first essay in a new series to be published online across the 2020-21 summer. Bearing witness to the climate emergency, The Elemental Summer will navigate ideas and experiences of land, fire, water and air, and the science that tracks and explores them.

 

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Joëlle Gergis

Joëlle Gergis is an award-winning climate scientist and writer at the Australian National University. Her book Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate...

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