TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flannery,Tim F.
TI  - The future eaters: an ecological history of the Australasian lands and people 
SN  - 0802139434
AV  - QH196.8 .F63 2002
U1  - 508.9 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Grove Press
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Australasia
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - History
KW  - Extinction (Biology)
N1  - "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

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