This handy guide is your key to the secrets of the most famous National Parks of Australia's Red Centre. It will tell you about the area's pre-history and origins, its geology and landforms, its plants and animals and how they live. It also unlocks the foor on its human history, especially of the Aboriginal people whose culture is so much a part of it.
Anne Kerle is a consultant biologist who lived and worked in Alice Springs for 14 years and now lives in Dubbo. Her work is directed towards enhancing our knowledge of the country to manage the land more effectively for conservation, and her research subjects have ranged from possums to ants. She has been a member of the Territory Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council to the Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory. She is also the author of Uluru - Kata Tjuta & Watarrka: Ayers Rock/the Olgas and Kings Canyon, Northern Territory (UNSW Press, 1995).
