Books By Tristan Coates - Author

Tristan Coates is an Australian whose career has zigzagged across continents, disciplines, and the occasional philosophical abyss. Once the author of a rather serious academic thesis on women's connection to the natural environment, he's since spent more than a decade watching those ideas play out in the wild, through private industry, public policy, social society and international development programs. Beyond the spreadsheets and site inspections, Coates has sailed tall ships into Sydney Harbour as captain of theSTS Endeavour, dialled into Oxford to read about The First Civilisation, dabbled in film projects that made their mark globally, and even represented Engineers Australia alongside the Commonwealth of Australia. Part engineer, part artist and part observer of human folly through a physics prism, Coates writes with an eye for irony and artistic take tuned to humans and the natural world. His reflections stem as much from bridges and boardrooms as from barstools and quiet Hemingwayan monologues - with an Australian edge.