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A Continent, a Scientist and a Kangaroo

Tim Flannery (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2007
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-102694-7 (ISBN)

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Draws on three decades of extensive travel, research and field work to reveal the country's unique nature. The author shows how the kangaroo is inseparable from the environment that created it. He reveals the vast continent to be a land of subtlety and complexity that becomes comprehensible to those who take the time to learn its hidden languages.

In his most thrilling and personal book, Tim Flannery writes a love letter to his homeland, drawing on three decades of extensive travel, research and field work to reveal its unique nature. Flannery shows how the kangaroo is inseparable from the environment that created it. And he reveals the vast continent to be a land of subtlety and complexity that becomes comprehensible to those who take the time to learn its hidden and ancient languages.

Tim Flannery is an internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist, described by Sir David Attenborough as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone’. His books include The Future Eaters, The Eternal Frontier, Throwim Way Leg, A Gap in Nature and The Weather Makers.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.5.2007
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 197 mm
Gewicht	220 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Bildbände ► Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien
ISBN-10	0-14-102694-4 / 0141026944
ISBN-13	978-0-14-102694-7 / 9780141026947
Zustand	Neuware