The Quiet Land by Peter Dombrovskis and by Ellen Miller

The Quiet Land

Photographs by Peter Dombrovskis

Text by Ellen Miller

Peter Dombrovskis, 1978, [Reprinted], [SIGNED], ISBN 0959753028, full colour photographic plates throughout, landscape hardcover, dustjacket

Near Fine Condition, Signed by author/photographer on title page, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, dustjacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing to edges and corners (See photographs)

“The Quiet Land is the island of Tasmania.  Not the Tasmania which is becoming more like every other settled area of the western world, but the Tasmania that is still surprising, often beautiful, and sometimes unique.  Through the perceptions of three Tasmanians, this book presents a new appreciation of Australia’s smallest state.
The photographs by Peter Dombrovskis were taken over a period of five years and reflect a feeling for natural beauty and a personal empathy and concern for Tasmania’s remaining wildlands.
Ellen Miller’s sensitive prose-poems weave between the photographs, distilling a new philosophy of respect for the land.  She suggests, in essence, that a land should be loved for its own sake rather than for what we might take from it.”