Kindred – A Cradle Mountain Love Story | Kate Legge | 2024 [SC]

Kate Legge's biography of Gustav Weindorfer and Kate Cowle — the Austrian immigrant and the Tasmanian woman who together fought to protect Cradle Mountain and establish it as a national park for all Australians.

Weindorfer grew up beside the Carinthian Alps; Kate Cowle was climbing Tasmanian mountains when few women did. When they stood on Cradle Mountain's summit together in January 1910, they imagined a national park. Weindorfer built Waldheim, his famous chalet in the wilderness, and dedicated the rest of his life to opening the mountain to visitors and arguing for its protection. He died there in 1932, a decade before Cradle Mountain was formally gazetted as a national park.

Legge — a former Walkley Award-winning journalist — spent years researching the story, recovering Kate Cowle from relative obscurity to give her equal place alongside Weindorfer in the account of what they achieved together.

At 247 indexed pages with black and white illustrations, this is a thoroughly researched and warmly written biography of two people whose determination shaped one of Tasmania's — and Australia's — most visited and loved landscapes.

BOOK DETAILS

• Softcover.
• 247 pages, indexed.
• Black and white illustrations.
• Published 2024.

CONDITION New copy.

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