Reviews of Murray River Country: An ecological dialogue with traditional owners

 

Audio interview with Jessica Weir on Late Night Live with Phillip Adams, 29 September 2009

Dene Mann, Bookseller+Publisher CAMPUS, October 2009

This is an important work for ecologists, human geographers, environmental historians and students of Indigenous affairs and cultural relations …It successfully probes the cultural dichotomies that impede efforts to improve the relationships between Indigenous and the ‘new’ Australian cultures that, in spite of urbanisation, still react as a settler society.…Murray River Country deserves a place on the library shelves of all tertiary institutions, senior high schools and communities along with all who care deeply about the fate of one of Australia’s most significant assets.

 

The Australian National University

Aboriginal History Volume 34, 2010, Shino Lonishi & Margaret Nugent

Aboriginal Studies Press is to be congratulated for publishing Jessica Weir's timely book Murray River Country: an Ecological Dialogue with the Traditional Owners, and for the stylish cover and numerous colour plates they include.
Unfortunately Weir's book confirms this sad truth that we are all losers because we have chosed to ignore the advice of the Elders regarding the need to 'care for country'.

Mary-Anne Gale

The University of Adelaide