Pedder: The Story. The Paintings, by Max Angus; Lake Pedder Restoration Committee, 2008, $70. Max Angus’s moving narrative sets before us a gentle and dignified man’s understanding of what was once an intensely inflammatory issue: the flooding of Lake Pedder in the cause of a hydro-electric power scheme. Lake Pedder was the jewel in the crown of Tasmania’s formerly untarnished south-western wilderness area. If subsequent conservationists were even half as reasonable as the author and illustrator of this slender but beautiful book their causes would be served much better. Angus chronicles what he sees as the tragic flooding of an…
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