Into that forest louis nowra the golden

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Into That Forest is a young-adult novel with a deep-seated ecological conscience, by the award-winning Australian playwright, Louis Nowra.

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When Louis Nowra travels Into That Forest, he goes in deep, delving into wild terrain where humans have scarcely set foot, trekking through thickets of "gum trees reeking of peppermint" and over "forest floors smothered in hairy toadstools." He tunnels deep into night landscapes alive with the scents of exotic animals – quolls and wombats, devils and wallabies – and nestles down into the wild lair itself, nose pressed into warm and sweet-smelling fur.

Into the Woods this is not.

Nowra's forest is animated not by fairy-tale magic but by the scientific wonder of a nature documentary.