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Author : Tim Flannery
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0802143717
The acclaimed naturalist celebrates his native Australia and one of its most extraordinary creatures as he examines how the kangaroo both shapes and is shaped by its environment, looks at Australia's natural history, and traces the evolution of the kangaroo.
Author : Ken Richardson
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780643107151
This book provides an authoritative source of information on kangaroos and their relatives. Topics include: species characteristics and biology, adaptations and function, and conservation. The book also discusses culling and the commercial kangaroo harvest, as well as national attitudes to kangaroos and their value for tourism. There are 71 recognised species of kangaroo found in Australasia. Of these, 46 are endemic to Australia, 21 are endemic to the island of New Guinea, and four species are found in both regions. The various species have a number of common names, including bettong, kangaroo, pademelon, potoroo, quokka, rat kangaroo, rock wallaby, tree kangaroo, wallaby and wallaroo. Illustrated in full colour, Australia’s Amazing Kangaroos will give readers insight into the world of this intriguing marsupial – an animal that has pride of place on the Australian Coat of Arms.
Author : Bradley Smith
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781486300303
The Dingo Debate explores the intriguing and relatively unknown story of Australia’s most controversial animal – the dingo. Throughout its existence, the dingo has been shaped by its interactions with human societies. With this as a central theme, the book traces the story of the dingo from its beginnings as a semi-domesticated wild dog in South-east Asia, to its current status as a wild Australian native animal under threat of extinction. It describes how dingoes made their way to Australia, their subsequent relationship with Indigenous Australians, their successful adaption to the Australian landscape and their constant battle against the agricultural industry. During these events, the dingo has demonstrated an unparalleled intelligence and adaptable nature seen in few species. The book concludes with a discussion of what the future of the dingo in Australia might look like, what we can learn from our past relationship with dingoes and how this can help to allow a peaceful co-existence. The Dingo Debate reveals the real dingo beneath the popular stereotypes, providing an account of the dingo’s behaviour, ecology, impacts and management according to scientific and scholarly evidence rather than hearsay. This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in Australian natural history, wild canids, and the relationship between humans and carnivores.
Author : Robert Burgin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610693851
Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.
Author : The Editors of Outside Magazine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493030828
Longtime readers have come to understand that Outside’s true gift is in chronicling misadventure. That’s the common thread among the stories found in Out There—those memorable tales that begin with the promise that, even if no one’s life is necessarily hanging in the balance, something may go horribly awry at any moment, and that documenting this misfortune will inevitably yield rich comedic material or a surprisingly poignant moment. Or sometimes both. Out There chronicles fringe athletes, fitness freaks, and others obsessed by ill-advised dreams. It takes us to far-flung places no sane person would want to go. What ties this collection together are the incredible voices of legendary Outside contributors such as David Quammen, Tim Cahill, Susan Orlean, Wells Tower, Christopher Solomon, Patrick Symmes, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Nick Paumgarten, and many others, who turn their subjects into literary gold and have helped to keep Outside in business for more than forty years.
Author : Ronald M. Berndt,Catherine H. Berndt
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0892815183
This is the first anthology of Aboriginal myth, collected by anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt during fifty years of work among the Aboriginal peoples.
Author : Edward Ellis Morris
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664653857
Discover the fascinating linguistic tapestry of Australasia with 'Austral English' by Edward Ellis Morris. This comprehensive dictionary takes you on a journey through the unique words, phrases, and usages that define the region. Uncover the origins of these distinctive linguistic expressions, from the incorporation of Aboriginal-Australian and Maori words to the emergence of scientific terminology born in Australasia. With meticulous classification, insightful quotations, and authoritative sources, 'Austral English' is a valuable resource for language enthusiasts and scholars alike.
Author : Edward Ellis Morris
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Australian languages
ISBN : UOM:39015026957467
Author : Michael Caulfield
Publisher : Hachette Australia
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780733626043
Drawn from engagements ranging from World War I through to operations in East Timor and Iraq, these stories are taken from the Australians at War Film Archive, a collection of the memories of more than 2000 Australians who have served, both on the front line and at home. Some are unbelievably, unbearably tragic, even after sixty or seventy years; others are the golden memories of happy, albeit unusual, times. And, more often than not, they are stories that have never been shared with others, even family members. There are stories from winners of the Victoria Cross; from the POW camps of Asia and Europe; from the patrols of Vietnam, through to those who served as peacekeepers in Rwanda and Somalia. There are stories from nurses, from those who have volunteered to serve with aid agencies and stories of ordinary Australians caught up by circumstances and by duty, in wartime. These are their words.
Author : Barbara T. Gates
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780226284460
From the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, hundreds of British women wrote about and drew from nature. Some—like the beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, who produced natural history about hedgehogs as well as fiction about rabbits—are still familiar today. But others have all but disappeared from view. Barbara Gates recovers these lost works and prints them alongside little-known pieces by more famous authors, like Potter's field notes on hedgehogs, reminding us of better known stories that help set the others in context. The works contained in this volume are as varied as the women who produced them. They include passionate essays on the protection of animals, vivid accounts of travel and adventure from the English seashore to the Indian Alps, poetry and fiction, and marvelous tales of nature for children. Special features of the book include a detailed chronology placing each selection in its historical and literary context; biographical sketches of each author's life and works; a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary literature; and over sixty illustrations. An ideal introduction to women's powerful and diverse responses to the natural world, In Nature's Name will be treasured by anyone interested in natural history, women, or Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Author : Stephen Spotte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107015197
The first comprehensive assessment of societies of gray wolves and free-ranging dogs, with an emphasis on behavioral ecology.
Author : Robert Kemp Philp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555019425
Author : Jeff Campbell,Adam Grano
Publisher : Zest Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781942186045
Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths and mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no longer exist, due to the evolution and arrival of the wildly adaptive human species, among other factors. Many more of the world's biggest and baddest creatures - including the black rhino, the dodo, giant tortoises, and the great auk - have vanished since our world became truly global. Last of the Giants chronicles those giant animals and apex predators who have been pushed to extinction in the modern era.
Author : Kirsty Murray,National Library of Australia
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780642277497
To the first Europeans who came to Australia, everything seemed topsy turvy. Christmas was in the summer and trees shed their bark but not their leaves. And the animals were bizarre. There was a bird that laughed like a donkey and a type of greyhound that bound along on its hind legs like a hare. There was an animal in Tasmania whose nocturnal screeches sounded like the devil and a river creature that had a duck's bill at one end and a beaver's tail at the other. The Europeans had never seen anything like these animals before and gave them names similar to those of the European creatures they already knew. They drew and painted odd pictures of them, showing they did not understand the animals' habits. In one illustration, a wombat is standing on its back legs and in another a Tasmanian tiger is wrestling with a platypus of the same size.
Author : Mrs. Charles Meredith
Publisher : New York : Bunce
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Tasmania
ISBN : NYPL:33433082445853