Introduction Chapter Ⅰ Conquest of Nature 1.1 Conquest of Nature in Western Culture 1.2 Land Degradation due to Over-exploitation 1.3 Human Alienation due to Resources Abuse 1.4 Spiritual Disequilibrium due to Whale-exploitation 1.5 Coastal Pollution due to Industrial Discharge Chapter Ⅱ Reestablishment of Umbilical Bond 2.1 Land Care in Aboriginal Tradition 2.2 Reverence for Life 2.3 Birth of Natures Children 2.4 An Environmental Campaign： Awakening Peoples Eco-responsibility 2.5 An Ecotopia： Reestablished Harmonious Symbiosis Chapter Ⅲ Retreat to the Wilderness 3.1 Wilderness 3.2 Coping with Growing Crises in the Wilderness 3.3 The Dilemma of Modern People in the Wilderness 3.4 The Reconciliation in the Wilderness Conclusion Works Cited Appendix Acknowledgements
In Australia, Tim Winton is known under several titles： literary prodigy, landscape writer, and environmentalist. He began to write and publish at 22 and decided to be a writer at ten. Therefore, he won the name of a writing "prodigy". His writing career is brilliant because he is the only four-time winner of the most prestigious literary prize in Australia-Miles Franklin Award. He is full of affection for the land that bred him and he wants the world to know that there is such a wonderful region on the western verge of the largest island continent-Australia. He is also known as a landscape writer. In addition, as a Western Australian who lives along the coastal area facing the Indian Ocean and backed by the vast arid or semi-arid area of the continent, Winton is an avid surfer, diver, fisher and even a beachcomber, which naturally leads to another important title for him-the enthusiastic patron of the marine environmental protection. Winton was born to a working-class family in Karrinyup, Western Australia in 1960. His father was a policeman and his mother a switchboard operator. When he was 12 years old, his family moved to Albany, a major southern port, where he spent three years. Winton grew up largely at Scarborough, a suburb of Perth. The family Christmas holidays that were often spent "in a shack at the mouth of the Greenough River", four-hour drive north of Perth, had an enormous impact on the author''s future career Winton, Land''s Edge 12. In his memory, there are two distinct childhoods, "the one contained and clothed, between fences" in the suburban area and "the other rambling, windblown, half-naked" in the coastal area. Winton admits that he "lived the coastal life harder, with more passion", for the outdoor life on the beach activates every cell in the boy Winton, Land''s Edge 9. And Winton attributes his becoming an author partly to the summer time spent in the house library "with four walls of books" at Greenough. Besides, his summer holidays are full of "the briny smell of the sea", which accounts for the author''s obsessive interest in the littoral life Land''s Edge 14. House library and coastal life initiate him into a writing career as a landscape writer.
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