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Tim Low



Tim Low is highly regarded as a biologist and writer. He is the prize-winning author of Feral Future and The New Nature, both published by Penguin, and Wild Food Plants of Australia. He is currently co-editor of Wildlife Australia magazine, to which he has been a long-term contributor. Tim also works as an environmental consultant, and his reports, books, articles and talks have contributed to ecological thought and environmental policy in Australia and more widely. His most recent book, Where Song Began, has even inspired a musical performance of that same name.

Books by Tim Low

The New Nature

Tim Low's award-winning book about the way we interact with nature in our human spaces continues to challenge our perceptions of the environment and our interaction with it.

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Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World

The award-winning bestseller that put Australian birds on the world map - nature and science writing at their best.

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Waste not, want not

Tim Low on the importance of human waste in the ‘natural’ world.