Bibliograph

Kindred, a Cradle Mountain love story, Kate Legge

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Kindred, a Cradle Mountain love story, Kate Legge

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

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portraitsmapsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Kindred

Responsibility statement

Kate Legge

Sub title

a Cradle Mountain love story

Summary

A love cradled by nature's greatest architecture: a national park. He was an Austrian immigrant; she came from Tasmania. He grew up beside the Carinthian Alps; she climbed mountains when few women dared. Their honeymoon glimpse of Cradle Mountain lit an urge that filled their waking hours. Others might have kept this splendour to themselves, but Gustav Weindorfer and Kate Cowle sensed the significance of a place they sought to share with the world. When they stood on the peak in the heat of January 1910, they imagined a national park for all. Kindred: A Cradle Mountain Love Story traces the achievements of these unconventional adventurers and their fight to preserve the wilderness where they pioneered eco-tourism. Neither lived to see their vision fully realised: the World Heritage listed landscape is now visited by 250,000 people each year. Award-winning journalist Kate Legge tells the remarkable story behind the creation of the Cradle Mountain sanctuary through the characters at its heart

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