Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature - Softcover

Flannery, Tim

 
9780802143716: Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802143717 ISBN 13: 9780802143716
Verlag: Grove Press, 2008

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The internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers crafts a love letter to his native land and one of its most unique inhabitants: the kangaroo.

Drawing on three decades of travel, research, and field work, Tim Flannery shows us how the destiny of the extraordinary kangaroo is inseparable from the environment that created it. Along the way he uses encounters with ancient aboriginal cultures, eccentric fossil hunters, farmers, scientists, kangaroo advocates, and kangaroo hunters, to explore how Australia's deserts and rain forests have shaped human responses to the continent—and how kangaroos have evolved to handle the resulting challenges. Ultimately, Chasing Kangaroos is a captivating blend of memoir, travel, natural history, and evolutionary science—and further proof of Flannery's "offhand interdisciplinary brilliance" (Entertainment Weekly).

"Absorbing, funny, and wonderfully learned." —Bill Bryson, New York Times–bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Flannery is a scientist, explorer, and conservationist. He has published more than 130 scientific papers and several books, including the #1 international bestseller The Weather Makers, Throwim Way Leg, Here on Earth, and Among the Islands. He was named Australian of the Year in 2007, and from 2001 to 2013, he was Australia’s Climate Commissioner.

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Verlag
Grove Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802143717
ISBN 13 
9780802143716
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272
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