The World Without Us perspective. Chauncey Mabe of the "South Florida Sun-Sentinel" calls the book "one of the most satisfying environmental books of recent memory, one devoid of self-righteousness, alarmism or tiresome doomsaying". Tom Spears of the CanWest News Service concludes "it's more a portrait of ourselves, taken through an odd lens" and "[s]ometimes an obituary is the best biography". The book is categorized as non-fiction science but some commentators emphasize it may be better described as speculative fiction. "The World Without Us" is grounded in environmental and science journalism. Like other environmental books, it discusses the impact that the human race has had
Shipwrecks of Western Australia Dawn", a former American Whale ship, the wooden whalers "Star", "Lively", "Lady Lyttelton" . The iron hulled SS "Macedon", the composite barque "Lady Elizabeth" and the other Rottnest Island shipwrecks assume considerable prominence as a suite of sites presented in the 'wreck trail', 'wreck access' or 'museum-without-walls' mode. In the modern era and the German auxiliary cruiser "Kormoran", adversaries in World War II, have been the subject of extensive study. They were both found in 2008. This is a listing of all shipwrecks recorded on the WA Museum database. Shipwrecks of Western Australia Over 1400 ships have been wrecked on