Talk:Natural and Cultural History of North-East Australia's Wet Tropical Forests

New Book Intended, with Explanation & Description of the Task ahead!!
There are a number of publications about the wet tropical forests as a whole targeting teachers wishing to teach, and students wishing to learn about the cultural and biological history and diversity of this World Heritage.

There are a number of wonderful photographic publications .. and even documentary films .. plus other multimedia material about with the whole, or some part of this World Heritage Area..

There are many, many more publications, articles, and studies about various places within the World Heritage Area, various species within the World Heritage area; various ecosystems of the World Heritage area; the paleontological and taxonomic histories of this area's biodiversity & plus the distinctive characteristics of the indigenous populations and cultures of this World Heritage area

Yet, despite this wealth and depth of material regarding this heritage 'universally significant to humanking and the world' .. there is no single text like book compiling in a single, easy to read, readily accessible format .. all that is known, has been discovered, and is still being discovered about the World Heritage currently being protected, preserved by national and international authorities, for the future benefit of humankind.

I have had a greater than 15 year personal and professional interest in the natural and cultural history of this area, and over that time have gained some familiarity .. and compiled a reasonable collection of existing materials .. from which I feel I can confidently begin pulling together that single compilation of text like history that will be of such interest and use to teachers, students, and people with an interest in world heritage.

My own background and training is in anthropology (which does include some physical anthropology and archaeology) .. so, until others contribute (& I will be invitiing others to do so, if they are not already part of the Wikibook users/community) .. there may be a greater (rather than lesser) emphasis on this dimension of the history, but I am confident this will not unduly distort the history that is ultimately produced!!

Otherwise .. readers, users, contributors, editors .. to me the 'Module' page/ or book will be (as appears to be intended by Wikibook?!) an organic, growing 'work in progress .. and my own first contributions are expected to be little more than a dry/drier chronological listing of key events in the long history (all with proper referencing) .. and it will be only after I, for one, have got that long chronological list out, that I expect to work back through identifying the themes, and transforming chronology into a more readible nattive and more useable text?!!

Any comments, contributions, advice, and/or recommendations now, or at any time 'in process' .. are more welcome and will, most likely, be appreciated!! Bruceanthro 00:49, 21 October 2007 (UTC)