Author: Creatively Curious

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Animals make us human…

A response to devastating 2019–20 bushfires, Animals Make Us Human both celebrates Australia’s unique wildlife, highlights it’s vulnerability. Writers, photographers, researchers reflect on their amazing connection with animals & nature. Share moments of wonder, revelations from encounters in the natural world – a wild platypus at play, an echidna dawdling across a bush track, an inexplicable leap of a thresher shark, bats taking flight at dusk, following possums & owls in the dark.

Animals Make Us Human – Amazon

Hopeful, uplifting, deeply moving, compassionate. An urgent call to action, a powerful reminder we only have one world to co-exist, thrive with our fellow creatures. Highlights the beauty, fragility of our unique flora & fauna.

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Nanda Devi…

The wide-ranging expedition of Eric Shipton & H.W. Tilman in the Garhwal Himalaya (India) in 1934 is regarded as the epitome of adventurous mountaineering. With Sherpa companions they solved the problem of access to the Nanda Devi sanctuary, crossed difficult cols, made unbelievable ascents, explored remote, uninhabited valleys.

Nanda Devi: Exploration & Ascent – Amazon

These adventures are recounted in Shipton’s wonderfully vivid Nanda Devi, one of the most inspirational mountain travel books. The writings of these two mountaineering legends creates a fascinating adventure tale. A beautiful, pristine peak visible from my ancestral home in the Himalayas. Miss travelling to the village…

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