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Chasing kangaroos : a continent, a scientist, and a search for the world's most extraordinary creature / Tim Flannery

By:

Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Grove Press, 2004Edition: 1st American edDescription: 258 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780802118523

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DDC classification:

599.2 FLA

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	599.2 FLA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	non fiction		031058

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-255) and index.

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.

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