The late Bernard Cotton must have realised the significance of what he recorded ... This effort isn’t only about preserving one species but also about protecting Australia’s wider natural and cultural ...

THE author describes this book as the result of eighteen months' investigation made in Australia, when secretary of the British Cotton Delegation, 1922. He sets out to prove that great areas of ...

Chintz’s history is also closely intertwined with the complex and sordid history of cotton production—an industry which, for centuries, depended on forced, unpaid, and brutal slave labor.