Where the Forest Meets the Sea
Walker Books UK  1988
Greenwillow Books USA 1988
Gabriel Verlag Austria 1995
Circonflexe France 1995
Yugaku-sha Japan 1988

‘My father says there has been a rainforest here
for over a hundred million years’.’
A boy and his father travel in their boat,  ‘Time
Machine’ to a stretch of beach beside a primordial
tropical rainforest.  As the boy walks among the trees
he imagines the forest as it might have been in the
past.  Dinosaurs emerge, barely perceptible, from a
tangle of trunks and vines;  the faint outlines of an
aboriginal child melt into a background of trees and in
the final haunting scene the unspoiled vista readers
have toured is overlaid with translucent images of
civilisation.