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In Caring for Australian Wildlife, author Sharon White has written an easy-to-read manual to support and educate wildlife carers. Packed with detailed illustrations and unique photographs, it puts vital information regarding the care and management of Australian native animals at your fingertips. This revised edition includes up-to-date information about caring for our native fauna. Rescue techniques and emergency care procedures are discussed in depth - the first 24 hours of care being so important when looking after sick, injured and orphaned wildlife.Detailed information about the specific needs of native animals in care are provided, including growth charts, comprehensive feeding tables, housing requirements and hand-rearing tips.This book has a place in every home and provides a handy reference guide for all wildlife emergencies.

New to living and gardening in Philadelphia, Sharon White begins a journey through the landscape of the city, past and present, in Vanished Gardens. In prose now as precise and considered as the paths in a parterre, now as flowing and lyrical as an Olmsted vista, White explores Philadelphia's gardens as a part of the city's ecosystem and animates the lives of individual gardeners and naturalists working in the area around her home.In one section of the book, White tours the gardens of colonial botanist John Bartram; his wife, Ann; and their son, writer and naturalist William. Other chapters focus on Deborah Logan, who kept a record of her life on a large farm in the late eighteenth century, and Mary Gibson Henry, twentieth-century botanist, plant collector, and namesake of the lily Hymenocallis henryae. Throughout White weaves passages from diaries, letters, and memoirs from significant Philadephia gardeners into her own striking prose, transforming each place she examines into a palimpsest of the underlying earth and the human landscapes layered over it.White gives a surprising portrait of the resilience and richness of the natural world in Philadelphia and of the ways that gardening can connect nature to urban space. She shows that although gardens may vanish forever, the meaning and solace inherent in the act of gardening are always waiting to be discovered anew.

Gigi, an art historian, wants to regain control over her life after her stroke. She leaves her husband and sons in the United States to teach art history for the summer at a university in Tokyo, where she once fell in love. As Gigi explores the unfamiliar landscape in Japan - shimmering temple gardens, a monkey preserve, and a Super Mario go-cart tour - she feels renewed. But when her friendship with Richard, a colleague who abandoned his family years before to teach dance in Japan, becomes an obsession with seeing wild boars in the exclusion zone of the Fukushima Disaster, she discovers her recovery is part of the fabric of loss and rebirth.