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

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

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

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

by Tim Flannery
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by Tim Flannery (Author)

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

Author Biography

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.

Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.73 x 8.22 x 5.58 IN
Publication Date: August 05, 2008
ISBN9780802143716
Author Tim Flannery
PublisherGrove Press
GenreHobbies & interests and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2008
LanguageENG- English
Pages272
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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