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The future eaters : an ecological history of the Australasian lands and people / Tim Flannery.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Grove Press, 2002.Edition: 1st Grove Press edDescription: 423 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0802139434
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 508.9 21
LOC classification:
  • QH196.8 .F63 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Books Books Zetech Library - Mang'u General Stacks Non-fiction QH196.8 .F63 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Z010999

"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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