Loving Country is a collection of essays on a range of Indigenous sacred sites in “Australia.” For each one, the essay includes detailed descriptions of the land and water, their histories, and their cultural significance; they also include a section at the end of each chapter including information on available tours or other ways to visit and learn about the area, and there are landscape and nature photos throughout. The text citiques settler colonialism and its cultural and environmental impacts, how these histories are told (or, in too many instances, silenced) today, and discusses contemporary Australians’ responsibilities toward the First Peoples and the land itself. 

I read this on an e-reader, and I really wish I could’ve gotten a hard copy – I would definitely suggest the hard copy route if you can find one in order to better see the photographs. 

Content warnings: as a book detailing Indigenous experiences of and histories with their land, it does discuss the past and present violence of settler colonialism.