Sentinels

‘Dulaney has given us an elegant and urgent exploration of humanity’s interconnectedness with the natural world, which we ignore at our peril. A must-read.’

‘Compulsively readable, politically astute, and meticulously researched, Sentinels is a brilliant book about humans and animals; about viruses, vulnerability, and ecological violence in an age of climate catastrophe. It is a meditation on the great web of being and an urgent call to arms. The new environmental journalism is here, and Dulaney is its finest correspondent.’

‘Visceral, vivid, and propulsive, Michael Dulaney’s writing is impossible to put down. A staggering feat of investigative reporting, Sentinels pulses with heart while asking the urgent questions of our time. Dulaney plunges us into tiny worlds with enormous consequences, rendering a piercing portrait of the world as it is and an honest look at what lies ahead, while leaving the reader with something rarer still: hope. Armed with knowledge, perhaps we can finally face the long-overdue reckoning.’

‘Incisive, well written, and wide ranging. Dulaney wrangles the messy and complicated layers of disease emergence to illuminate the bigger stories beneath the spillovers. You’ll be leaping from page to page faster than a novel flu strain in an industrial farm.’

Michael Dulaney’s writing explores humanity’s links with the rest of non-human nature in the climate crisis. He was a reporter at the ABC for more than a decade, and his environment writing has been published by The Monthly, Literary Hub, The Big Issue, and the BBC, among others. He won the Overland Fair Australia Prize and was a 2024 Climate Futures Fellow at the State Library Victoria.

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