ROBERT RANKIN
AUSTRALIA
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Rankin Publishers is a publishing firm based in Brisbane, Australia, founded by Robert Rankin and dedicated to producing quality
publications on wilderness, hiking and bushwalking in Australia. Robert Rankin commenced publishing in 1973 with the launch of very
small pocket guides to the rockclimbs at the Kangaroo Point Cliffs and other locations around Brisbane. Robert Rankin's wilderness
landscape photography was soon featured in a range of products selling up to 100,000 calendars, diaries and boxed cards annually.
Currently we publish a range of guidebooks to some of the most spectcular wild places of Australia, as well as DVDs, software
and music CDs based on his wilderness photography. A selection of Robert Rankin's short films can be seen on YouTube at
His
Wikipedia page is
Robert Rankin produced his first wilderness calendar
in 1980 and, arguably, was the first publisher to introduce an Australian wilderness calendar in 1982, covering all
of Australia and show-casing the best and most remote and spectacular wild regions from the whole continent. His publications
brought, to public attention, spectacular scenes from rare, remote and, at the time, mostly unknown places in the hope that increased
knowlege of the existence of these places would help preserve them.