James Woodford: 7 books

The Dog Fence is an enthralling account of a most unusual journey over sand, gibber plains and salt lakes. It is about the hazards of travel, the lessons of history and the passion and resilience of the men and women on the land. At 5400 kilometres, the Dog Fence is one of the longest man-made...

Whitley Award winner for Best Popular Zoology Book. With his usual brilliance James Woodford, bestselling author of The Wollemi Pine, explores the wombat's bizarre evolutionary history and perilous future: a mere 65 northern hairy-nosed wombats remain in the wild. But this book also...

The real Great Barrier Reef is not just a single clown fish or a colony of branching stag horn coral. It is not simply the crystal clear water, cocktails and beautiful bodies of the tourist ads. Nor is it just the stage for murders, mishaps, shipwrecks, shark attacks, crocodile death rolls or gropers...

I remember thinking two things at the time. Firstly, if it had wanted to eat us we wouldn't have stood a chance and second, it didn't want to eat us. When James Woodford was confronted by half a dozen sharks swimming at full speed, he froze in shock. But he was even more surprised when they...

Real Dirt is the true story of a sea-change, the life that led there, and what you have to go through to get where you want to be.It took James Woodford a while to realise that the greasy pole of big-city ambition was not for him. To rediscover the environmentalist he'd aspired to be when he was young,...

An enthralling detective story about evolution and natural history. In mid-1994 a National Parks & Wildlife ranger abseiling in the Wollemi Wilderness outside Sydney, came upon an extraordinary sight: a canyon filled with massive pines. These trees towered above the surrounding foliage,...

Sometimes you've got to fight
for what you love…The sleepy coastal village of Bimbulla is nestled between rugged mountains and sparkling waters. Each winter, research scientist Digby Stuart waits for the wandering albatross to break its journey en route to the Antarctic, and to continue his studies...