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Highlights
- 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.
- Author(s): Tim Flannery
- 432 Pages
- Nature, Environmental Conservation & Protection
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About the Book
In this illustrated ecological history, acclaimed scientist and historian Flannery follows the environment of the islands through the age of dinosaurs to the age of mammals and the arrival of humans, to the European colonizers and industrial society. Penetrating, gripping, and provocative, this book combines natural history, anthropology, and ecology on an epic scale. Illustrations.Book Synopsis
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." -- TimeDimensions (Overall): 8.98 Inches (H) x 6.02 Inches (W) x 1.14 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.38 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 432
Genre: Nature
Sub-Genre: Environmental Conservation & Protection
Publisher: Grove Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Tim Flannery
Language: English
Street Date: October 16, 2002
TCIN: 82940102
UPC: 9780802139436
Item Number (DPCI): 247-08-3050
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.14 inches length x 6.02 inches width x 8.98 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 1.38 pounds
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