The book
A whole-picture natural history of the Sunshine Coast — from the reef to the range — written for the curious: the newcomer, the lifelong local, the student, the bushwalker and the land manager.
It follows one idea down a single slope: how rock becomes soil, how soil and water and fire decide what grows, and how, by learning to read a few honest signs, you can look at a stretch of country and know roughly what it is and what it has been through.
What's inside
From deep time and the making of the rock, out through every ecosystem on the coast, to the living web, the people, and a field companion for taking the whole skill outdoors.
Illustrated throughout
There's a locality map and a cross-section of the full gradient, both built from real elevation data, alongside hand-drawn diagrams of the soils, the estuary, the dune lakes, the volcanic hotspot, the fire boundary and a naturalist's seasonal wheel.
Take the charts home — the diagrams as print-ready wall charts →
Get the book
It reads on whatever you already own. And as the preface admits, nobody is getting rich off this book, least of all its author.
$9.99 AUD
EPUB · available 15 July 2026 · works on any e-reader, phone, tablet or computer
ISBN 978-0-646-74477-3
It'll be priced to cover the cost of making it, and no more.