TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Chasing kangaroos :a continent, a scientist, and a search for the world's most extraordinary creature /
DA  - [2007].
CY  - New York :
AU  - Flannery, Tim F.
ET  - 1st American ed.
CN  - QL737.M35
CN  - QL737.M35
PB  - Grove Press,
PP  - New York :
PY  - [2007].
N1  - Originally published: Country : a continent, a scientist & a kangaroo. Melbourne : Text Pub., 2004.
ID  - 320206
KW  - Kangaroos
KW  - Macropodidae
KW  - Extinct animals
KW  - Extinction (Biology)
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Human ecology
SN  - 9780802118523
SN  - 0802118526
TI  - Chasing kangaroos :a continent, a scientist, and a search for the world's most extraordinary creature /
LK  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0712/2006052628-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0712/2006052628-d.html
ER  -