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Banksia Lady: Celia Rosser - Botanical Artist by Carolyn Landon
Category: Biography | Series: Biography Ser.
Banksia Lady is the story of Celia Rosser, internationally acclaimed botanical illustrator, who dedicated her life to painting the entire genus of Banksia, the only artist to have done so. Her dedication to the task put her at the centre of the Monash Banksia Project for twenty-five years, and culminate ...Show more
Cups with No Handles: Memoir of A Grassroots Activist by Carolyn Landon
Category: Australian History
There is no place in this world for a single mum without a job. Oh! Why did I ever get married! Why did I have kids? Why did I let myself become trapped like this? ...it seemed to me my life was ruined and I would never ever amount to anything. I have become my mother! I wailed. I was broken. This is th ...Show more
Jackson's Track Revisited - History, Remembrance and Reconciliation by Carolyn Landon
Category: Australian History
In the late 1990s, Carolyn Landon collaborated with Daryl Tonkin to write his memoir of life at Jackson's Track. It was the story of a White man and his Aboriginal family, of family ties, hard work, happiness, betrayal, racial prejudice and ultimately, from Daryl's point of view, tragic dispossession. S ...Show more
Of Friends and Gardens by Carolyn Landon
Category: Home and Garden
'It seems incredible, the vast knowledge that is held at the Garden, and how important it is that plants from all over Australia are thriving and protected here. For this is an invaluable living museum of some of the oldest flora on earth.' Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne is a unique site situated in V ...Show more
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