Lake Pedder – Why a National Park Must Be Saved | Dick Johnson (Ed.) | 1972 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A campaign booklet published in 1972 to support the fight to save Lake Pedder from flooding for the expansion of Tasmania's hydro-electric power scheme — edited by Dick Johnson and published while the campaign was still being contested.

Lake Pedder was a unique glacial lake in Tasmania's south-west wilderness, famous for its pink quartzite beach and the clarity of its water. The campaign to save it from inundation by the Hydro-Electric Commission was one of the earliest major wilderness campaigns in Australia, predating the Franklin River fight by a decade and helping to define the language and politics of Australian environmental activism.

The campaign was ultimately unsuccessful — Lake Pedder was flooded in 1972, the same year this booklet was published, the original lake lost beneath the expanded reservoir that now bears its name.

At 96 large-format pages with black and white photographs throughout, this is a primary document of that campaign — the arguments made, the photographs taken, and the voices raised at the moment the battle was being lost.

BOOK DETAILS

• Softcover.
• 96 pages.
• Black and white photographs throughout.
• Approximately 28.5cm wide x 22cm tall.
• Published 1972. Out of print.

CONDITION

Used, generally good condition for its age with some wear and marks to the cover.

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