Product Description: With stunning landscape photographs and informative essays, this pictorial explores Australia’s Macquarie Island, a sliver of unexpected rock in the vast Southern Ocean. Touching upon the island’s unique history—including shipwrecks, seal slaughters, and a damaged ecosystem resulting from human interference—this record with an ecological theme is a tribute to one of the world’s great wildlife refuges...read more

After her grandfather's death, Essie returns to Bruny Island, Tasmania and to the lighthouse where her great-great-grandfather kept watch for nearly 40 years. Beneath the lighthouse, she begins to write the stories of her ancestors.

A comprehensive discussion of the pros and cons of attending college offers practical alternatives to the ever-burgeoning costs of higher education, showing how to effectively use time off from school, presenting careers that do not require a degree, and more. Original. (view table of contents)