Full name: Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature

Author: Tim Flannery Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Animals, Science, Travel Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780802118523 9780802143716 0802118526 0802143717

In his most personal book yet, Tim Flannery, the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers , draws on three decades of travel, research, and field work to craft a love letter to his native land and one of its most unique and beloved inhabitants: the kangaroo. Crisscrossing the continent, Flannery shows us how the destiny of this extraordinary creature is inseparable from the environment that created it. Along the way he uses encounters with ancient aboriginal cultures and eccentric fossil hunters, farmers and scientists, kangaroo advocates and kangaroo hunters, to explore how Australia's deserts and rainforests have shaped human responses to the continent -- and how kangaroos have evolved to handle the resulting challenges. Ultimately, Chasing Kangaroos is a smart yet utterly readable synthesis of memoir, travel, natural history, and evolutionary science -- and further proof of Flannery's "offhand interdisciplinary brilliance" ( Entertainment Weekly ). Similar books: The Future Eaters by Tim Flannery Among the Islands by Tim Flannery The Animal Dialogues by Craig Childs The View from Lazy Point by Carl Safina The Last Unicorn by William DeBuys The Birds of Heaven by Peter Matthiessen We Are the Weather Makers by Tim Flannery Cry of the Kalahari by Mark Owens River Monsters by Jeremy Wade Birding Without Borders by Noah Strycker The Dragon Behind the Glass by Emily Voigt Carnivorous Nights by Margaret Mittelbach The New Noah by Gerald Durrell The Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior by David Allen Sibley The Warbler Guide by Tom Stephenson Where the Animals Go by James Cheshire Life on Earth by David Attenborough Listening to Whales by Alexandra Morton National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America by National Geographic Society Sibley's Birding Basics by David Allen Sibley