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The Future Eaters

The Future Eaters

An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People

by Tim F. Flannery
Paperback
Publication Date: 16/10/2002

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Humans first settled the islands of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and New Guinea some sixty millennia ago, and as they had elsewhere across the globe, immediately began altering the environment by hunting and trapping animals and gathering fruits and vegetables. In this illustrated iconoclastic ecological history, acclaimed scientist and historian Tim Flannery follows the environment of the islands through the age of dinosaurs to the age of mammals and the arrival of humanity on its shores, to the coming of European colonizers and the advent of the industrial society that would change nature's balance forever. Penetrating, gripping, and provocative, The Future Eaters is a dramatic narrative history that combines natural history, anthropology, and ecology on an epic scale. Flannery tells his beautiful story in plain language, science-popularizing at its Antipodean best. -- Times Literary Supplement Like the present-day incarnation of some early-nineteenth-century explorer-scholar, Tim Flannery refuses to be fenced in. -- Time
ISBN:
9780802139436
9780802139436
Category:
Natural history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
16-10-2002
Language:
English
Publisher:
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
423
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x25mm
Weight:
0.63kg

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