According to Marge Candy in the “Foreword”,Fred Williams in this book brings the traditional owners, residents, foresters and horses back long enough to tell their story. Regrettably they have been replaced with out of control tourism and four wheel drive vehicles that are doing massive damage far more than a few hundred horses ever could.
The fragile ecology and landscape have irrefutably been damaged by these excessive numbers of tourists – just so the QPWS can balance the books between revenue collected and expenditure. HOWEVER WITH 6 MILLION DOLLARS PAID OUT FOR NEGLIGENCE as awarded by the courts, its going to take some time. MEANWHILE THE ISLAND IS UNDERGOING vast STERILISATION. The loss of ground dwelling animals and birds are the first to go.
This book gives the reader an enjoyable factual understanding of what an important role Fraser Island played not only in the in the past but also the present and for its inhabitants, particularly the loss of rare critically endangered Suffolk Punch and (Arab horses that came to Australia with the first fleet.) This book is number five in Williams’s stable of titles it makes a highly valuable contribution to our understanding of K’Gari. It is extensively illustrated.