Jane Goodall

The one thing Morrison seems to have grasped is that politics is not essentially about what goes on in the corridors of Parliament House.

‘Reading Another Science is Possible and Wakuwal in succession, I am struck by the thought that Stengers and Botsman have written the same treatise in different languages, and from different places in the human psyche. They issue the same call for a tectonic shift in the cognitive landscape.’

Here lies one of the key challenges for a modern translator. How to get the dramatis personae to communicate across the centuries? The convention is to provide some contextual information in footnotes and appendices, but James wants none of this pedantry and aims instead to incorporate essential points in the verse.

Our dependence on the environment is the ultimate proof that there is such a thing as the common good.