The wasp and the orchid: the remarkable life of Australian naturalist Edith Coleman.
Sydney: Picador, 2018. Octavo, paperback, photographs. WAS $35. In 1922, a 48-year-old housewife from Blackburn delivered her first paper, on native Australian orchids, to the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. Over the next thirty years, Edith Coleman would write over 300 articles on Australian nature for newspapers, magazines and scientific..... More