One of the chapters in here happens to be mine, so feel free to take my rating and comments with a grain of salt, as I am hardly objective. That being said, I've just finished reading this for the first time and I can honestly say there were points where I was fascinated. Some of the ideas here will stick with me for a long time. I enjoyed that so many of the topics related to Australia and New Zealand, the latter of which is my home. I enjoyed, too, the sheer variety of those topics. From water rights to growing millet to how the lawn-mower and plough impact on our perceptions of the natural world, there was something to catch attention in all of them. (My favourite, I think, was Gareth Stanton's "Mediating the Deep: A Partial Genealogy of Media Work with Oceans and Seas".) This is an academic work, however, and the eco-critical arguments in here can be dense - and I say that in observation rather than judgement. Some of the subject matter is so compelling, however, that I hope that the other authors will one day put their work into more popular form so that more people can be exposed to it, because I think lots of them would be interested!