Book chapter
Where Have All the Boronia Gone? A Posthumanist Model of Environmental Mourning
Mourning Nature: hope at the heart of ecological loss and grief, p.117
McGill-Queen's University Press
17/05/2017
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Abstract
Scented or brown boronia (Boronia megastigma) is a slender shrub endemic to the South-West corner of Western Australia. Said to possess a “heady, sentimental perfume” (Parker 1962, 4), the fragrant blossom is found in the heath lands and eucalypt forests between Busselton and Albany, south of the capital city Perth. Bearing small brown and yellow flowers toward the end of winter (late July–September in Western Australia), boronia was collected in the wild, shipped by train, and sold as an ornamental by Perth streetsellers in the early to mid-1900s. In 1947, novelist and columnist James Pollard (1900–1971) wrote of
Details
- Title
- Where Have All the Boronia Gone? A Posthumanist Model of Environmental Mourning
- Creators
- John Charles Ryan (Author)
- Contributors
- Ashlee Cunsolo (Editor of compilation)Karen Landman (Editor of compilation)
- Publication Details
- Mourning Nature: hope at the heart of ecological loss and grief, p.117
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press; London
- Identifiers
- 991013024978502368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter