Call of the Reed Warbler: A new agriculture, a new earth

摘要

The relationship between humanity and the external world is examined and found wanting in Charles Massy's Call of the Reed Warbler, a powerful book examining Australian landscape conditions. Exhaustive, scholarly, eminently readable and deeply personal, the book positions the concept of landscape inextricably within that relationship. An agricultural scientist and farmer, Massy also situates the discipline of landscape architecture within this relationship, in part through an examination of the work and influence of pioneering landscape architect and writer Ian McHarg.