Where the Forest Meets the Sea by Jeannie Baker

A boy and his father travel in their boat, ‘Time Machine’ to a stretch of beach beside a primordial tropical rainforest. As the boy walks among the trees he imagines the forest as it might have been in the past. Dinosaurs emerge, barely perceptible, from a tangle of trunks and vines; the faint outlines of an aboriginal child melt into a background of trees...

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and in the final haunting scene the unspoiled vista readers have toured is overlaid with translucent images of a possible future civilisation.
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