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Country: A Continent, A Scientist & A Kangaroo

Door Tim Flannery

Categorie
Engels
Boeknummer
#376751-XK34
Titel
Country: A Continent, A Scientist & A Kangaroo
Auteur
Flannery, Tim
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Melbourne : Text Publishing
Jaar van uitgave
2005
ISBN10
1920885765
ISBN13
9781920885762
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with some photographs in colour and b/w, map, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Country is a panoramic book about a scientist and a continent. In this, his most thrilling and personal book yet, Tim Flannery writes a love letter to our great land, drawing on three decades of extensive travel, research and field work to reveal its unique nature. As he describes his own passionate encounters with the land and its people, Flannery pays particular attention to the evolution of Australia's most distinctive animal, the kangaroo. He shows us how the destiny of this extraordinary creature is inseparable from the environment which created it. The kangaroo may seem as familiar to us as the eucalypt or the desert, a symbol on a road sign or the tail of a passenger plane, but readers of Country will never see our national emblem in the same way again. Tim Flannery's Country teache... (Lees verder)s us how this vast continent is not at all 'a ghastly blank', but a land of subtlety and complexity that becomes comprehensible to those who take the time to learn its hidden and ancient languages.
Pagina's
258
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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