Sustaining the Earth [antikvár]

The idea of writing this book was suggested to me by Hugh Stretton longer ago than I like to remember. It was he who first aroused my interest in the politics of the environment, and eventually got me involved in the teaching programme of the Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies at the University of Adelaide. I give thanks to Hugh for that, and for his continued encouragement. I am also indebted to my other colleagues in the History Department, to which I have belonged for most of my academic life so far, for their toleration of my changing interests and enthusiasms, and for allowing me to accept a term of secondment to Environmental Studies for the past year. I am also grateful to my colleagues in the Centre, Pam Keeler, Ken Dyer, David Corbett and George Dubas, for the support they have given me throughout what has been a turbulent period for all of us. My wife, Ruth, has made me get the thing finished after sharing the whole experience of searching in libraries, typing the first draft, listening to bits of it, pedalling a bicycle all over Britain and living for some time in a tent. Our thanks to Doug Carlston and Mary Crowley of Sausalito, Carroll Pur-sell and Angela Woolacott of the University of California at Santa Barbara, for their contacts and hospitality, and especially to Chuck and Alice Carlston who lent us their cabin in Maine in which to write. Laura Pines helped a lot, too, by coming over from her teepee by the pond one evening and lending us her tapes of Haydn's early symphonies. I owe a great deal to the helpful criticism of Merrilyn Julian and many others who have read early drafts or parts of them; yet more to Marion Pearce, Silvana Flacco and Pam Keeler who put up with the resulting changes in their handiwork on the word-processor. Finally, my thanks to Iain Stevenson of Belhaven Press for his patience.