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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I first fell in love with the Great Barrier Reef on a hapless BBC reenactment that I describe briefly in the Prologue. This also proved to be one of the more traumatic times of my life, and I would like to thank my friends and colleagues Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Agnew, and Alex Cook for making it bearable, and so contributing over the long haul to the genesis of this book.

Shaping, researching, and writing
The Reef
has proved to be another type of long haul, one in which I was always sustained by the keen perceptions, good humor, and pithy editing skills of my loving wife, Kate Fullagar. And, as with previous books, my hardworking agent Mary Cunnane has offered unstinting wisdom, support, and guidance, ably assisted by Kathleen Anderson in New York and Natasha Fairweather in London.

My warmest thanks and admiration also go to senior science editor Amanda Moon and the wonderful team at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, including Daniel Gerstle and Laird Gallagher. It is a pure pleasure to work with such clever, professional, and caring people. The marketing and advertising of books and media has become an increasingly complex and demanding process these days, and for expertly managing this side of things I also thank Jeff Seroy.

I owe so much to my longtime research assistant and adviser, Katherine Anderson, who has managed with her usual calm efficiency to give birth both to this book and to a gorgeous baby girl, Corisande.

The writing and research of
The Reef
has been pursued in tandem with filming and other forms of digital production, with the aim that these media should feed off and fertilize one another. This fusion has been made possible by the friendship and brilliance of Mike Bluett of Northern Dogs Television and Digital. Working with him and learning from him has been one of the most energizing experiences of my late academic career. Among other things he has convinced me that digital and written histories can, and must, learn to work together in a creative symbiosis.

Around us we also gathered a splendid team of digital experts and friends: Sam Wilson, film editor; James Stewart, sound engineer; Dean Miller, cameraman; and Andrew McCalman on video and stills, as well as Keren Moran and Noa Peer, Web creators extraordinaire of the Sydney digital company Spring in Alaska.

Our visits to Reef sites in order to film introduced us to a range of special individuals for whom working to protect the Reef and its peoples remains urgent, unfinished business. Here I would like particularly to mention Alberta Hornsby, a Guugu Yimithirr knowledge custodian of Hopevale and Cooktown, and a historian of great passion, sagacity, and balance. I am deeply in her debt. At Dunk Island we were inspired by the local knowledge of a longtime island inhabitant and nature lover, Susi Kirk, an inheritor of the mantle of Ted Banfield if ever there was one. At Lockhart River we were treated with extraordinary generosity: Paul Piva loaned us one of his four-wheel-drive vehicles and refused to take payment, while Wayne Butcher, the energetic mayor and community leader, provided us with a boat and his scarce gas supply, and then gave his Uutaalnganu-descended staff time off from work to talk with us about their ancestor Anco and the days when their community still lived in their Sandbeach country near Night Island.

An early visit to Rivendell, the home of coral scientists John “Charlie” Veron and Mary Stafford-Smith, introduced me to Charlie’s incredible life and work; and he later also entrusted me with a moving private memoir written for his children. This began a relationship that has given vital shape and purpose to my book, though he is not to blame for my mistakes. The Great Barrier Reef and our planet owe these two public-spirited scientists an incalculable debt.

If one is lucky universities can provide supportive and inspirational environments of a different kind. Friendships and informal conversations with colleagues at Sydney and other universities have been more sustaining than these scholars can know. Here I would particularly like to thank Shane White, Mike McDonnell, David Schlosberg, Alison Bashford, Mark McKenna, Jodi Frawley, Julia Horne, Duncan Ivison, Kirsten McKenzie, Jude Philp, Leah Lui-Chivezhe, Michael Davis, Clare Corbould, Ann Curthoys, John Docker, Barbara Caine, Leigh Boucher, Nicholas Thomas, Jim Chandler, John Barrell, Harriet Guest, Jon Mee, Libby Robin, and my special fount of science knowledge, Lachlan McCalman.

The actual funding to enable research for this book and its associated digital productions came through the generosity of the Australian Research Council, whose Linkage grant also brought me into collaboration with Michael Westaway of the Queensland Museum and with my old friends Michael Crayford and Nigel Erskine of the Australian National Maritime Museum. Crucially it also cemented a collaborative partnership with John Mullen, director of Silentworld Foundation, and his wife, Jackie, which has ripened into a warm friendship. John’s knowledge of and passion for early Australian maritime history, as well as for archaeological diving in sometimes perilous circumstances, and for collecting, preserving, and displaying vital objects of Australian heritage stands as a salutary example to historical and museum professionals everywhere.

As usual I have depended on the generosity and expertise of librarians and archivists for my intellectual infrastructure of manuscripts and illustrations. I would like to thank the Fisher Library, University of Sydney; the National Library of Australia; the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales; the Australian Museum, Sydney; the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; the Royal Historical Society of Queensland; the John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland; the Fryer Library, University of Queensland; the James Cook University Library; the Griffith University Library; the Australian National Maritime Museum; the Archives of the Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University; the Australian Marine Conservation Society; the Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland; and the Library of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville.