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Kathleen Steele

Kathleen Steele

Kathleen Steele is a writer and the author of the novel, Return to Tamarlin (2017). She holds a PhD in Australian literature from Macquarie University and won the 2009 ABR Reviewing Competition.

Kathleen Steele reviews 'Shark: In peril in the sea' by David Owen

February 2010, no. 318 01 February 2010
Kathleen Steele reviews 'Shark: In peril in the sea' by David Owen
The press release for David Owen’s latest book describes it as a ‘thoroughly researched’ work by a shark ‘outsider’ that aims to ‘comprehensively overturn our negative and damaging perceptions of sharks’. I cannot claim expert knowledge of sharks, but personal experience makes me a suitable subject on which to measure the author’s effectiveness. When I was a child, one of my sister ... (read more)