Libby Robin FAHA is a prize-winning author of sixteen books, including How a Continent Created a Nation, The Flight of the Emu and Boom and Bust: Bird stories for a dry country. She is Emeritus Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University and has worked with a number of museums including the National Museum of Australia and the Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany. Her latest book, The Environment: A history of the idea (co-authored with Paul Warde and Sverker Sörlin) was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in October 2018.