Chasing kangaroos : a continent, a scientist, and a search for the world's most extraordinary creature / Tim Flannery.
Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-
2007
QL737.M35 F56 2007 (Mapit)
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Title Chasing kangaroos : a continent, a scientist, and a search for the world's most extraordinary creature / Tim Flannery.
Author Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-
Uniform Title Country
Edition 1st American ed.
ISBN 9780802118523
0802118526
Imprint New York : Grove Press, [2007].
Language English
Description 258 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number QL737.M35 F56 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 599.2/22
Summary Conservationist Flannery draws on three decades of travel, research, and field work to craft a love letter to his native land and one of its most unique and beloved inhabitants: the kangaroo. Crisscrossing the continent, Flannery shows us how the destiny of this extraordinary creature is inseparable from the environment that created it. Along the way he uses encounters with ancient aboriginal cultures and eccentric fossil hunters, farmers and scientists, kangaroo advocates and kangaroo hunters, to explore how Australia's deserts and rainforests have shaped human responses to the continent--and how kangaroos have evolved to handle the resulting challenges. A synthesis of memoir, travel, natural history, and evolutionary science.--From publisher description.
Note Originally published: Country : a continent, a scientist & a kangaroo. Melbourne : Text Pub., 2004.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-255) and index.
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Introduction : Vanished country
1. A failed circumnavigation
2. Captain Cook's kangaroo
3. Quokkas, Euros and stinkers
4. The last of the frontier
5. Of nailtails and nailed tyres
6. Kangaroo essence
7. Dead-end in the Inland Sea
8. The mystery of hopping
9. The brightest place on Earth
10. The oldest kangaroo
11. Skeletons in the dead centre
12. Where the great roos came from
13. The age of kangaroos
14. Advancing with feet or stomach?
15. Grass for the kangaroos
16. Not formed for such work
17. Land of giants
18. Is the answer 46?
19. World conquest
20. A dingo-driven revolution
21. The age of mammals in Australia
22. The Groote Eylandt
23. The true experts
24. Symbols of the New Land
25. Oolacunta!
26. Re-making country
Postscript
Family tree
Acknowledgments
General bibliography
Index.

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