The future eaters : an ecological history of the Australasian lands and people /
Flannery, Tim F. 1956-
The future eaters : an ecological history of the Australasian lands and people / Tim Flannery. - 1st Grove Press ed. - New York : Grove Press, 2002. - 423 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
"First published in 1994 by Reed Books Australia."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-417) and index.
Pt. I. Infinity Before Man. New lands--Australia in Gondwana--Land of geckos, land of flowers--Land of sound and fury--Meganesian enterprises--Splendid isolation--Sweet are the uses of adversity--Diversity enigma--Desert sea--mystery of the Meganesian meat-eaters--Pt. II. Arrival of the Future Eaters. What a piece of work is a man--Gloriously deceitful, and a virgin--Peopling the lost islands of Tasmantis
Great megafauna extinction debate--Making the savage beast--There ain't no more moa in old Aotearoa--Lost in the mists of time--Time dwarfs--Sons of Prometheus--Who killed Kirlilpi?--When thou hast enough, remember the time of hunger--Alone on the southern islands, weirds broke them--So varied in detail- so similar in outline--Few fertile valleys. / Pt. III. Last Wave: Arrival of the Europeans. Backwater country--As if we had been old friends--Diverse experiences--Like plantations in a gentleman's park--Unbounded optimism--Riding the red steer- fire and biodiversity conservation in Australia--Adapting culture to biological reality.
0802139434
2002016445
Natural history--Australasia.
Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.--Australasia
Extinction (Biology)--Australasia.
Australasia--History.
QH196.8 / .F63 2002
508.9
The future eaters : an ecological history of the Australasian lands and people / Tim Flannery. - 1st Grove Press ed. - New York : Grove Press, 2002. - 423 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
"First published in 1994 by Reed Books Australia."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-417) and index.
Pt. I. Infinity Before Man. New lands--Australia in Gondwana--Land of geckos, land of flowers--Land of sound and fury--Meganesian enterprises--Splendid isolation--Sweet are the uses of adversity--Diversity enigma--Desert sea--mystery of the Meganesian meat-eaters--Pt. II. Arrival of the Future Eaters. What a piece of work is a man--Gloriously deceitful, and a virgin--Peopling the lost islands of Tasmantis
Great megafauna extinction debate--Making the savage beast--There ain't no more moa in old Aotearoa--Lost in the mists of time--Time dwarfs--Sons of Prometheus--Who killed Kirlilpi?--When thou hast enough, remember the time of hunger--Alone on the southern islands, weirds broke them--So varied in detail- so similar in outline--Few fertile valleys. / Pt. III. Last Wave: Arrival of the Europeans. Backwater country--As if we had been old friends--Diverse experiences--Like plantations in a gentleman's park--Unbounded optimism--Riding the red steer- fire and biodiversity conservation in Australia--Adapting culture to biological reality.
0802139434
2002016445
Natural history--Australasia.
Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.--Australasia
Extinction (Biology)--Australasia.
Australasia--History.
QH196.8 / .F63 2002
508.9