I'm in the painful process of culling my book collection and thought this particular book would be easy to cull: just another book of pretty pictures of coastlines etc. Instead, as I actually read it in more detail, I realised that it was a collection of the most iconic photos and photographers in Australia. Names like Olive Cotton, Peter Dombrovskis, Harold Cazneaux, Frank Hurley..and there is a photograph there that I have long attributed to Hurley....the photo of a ship in Antarctica taken from inside an ice cavern. (This was actually taken by Herbert Ponting in 1910). Lovely photos. Fairly large format (A4) And I can't bring myself to donate this book to charity just yet. Maybe I'll come back to look at the pictures again (though time is running out!!). Five stars from me. ( )