Australia's Amazing Kangaroos

Author: Ken Richardson
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643107150
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
This book provides an authoritative source of information on kangaroos and their relatives. Topics include: species characteristics and biology, adaptations and function, and conservation. The book also discusses culling and the commercial kangaroo harvest, as well as national attitudes to kangaroos and their value for tourism. There are 71 recognised species of kangaroo found in Australasia. Of these, 46 are endemic to Australia, 21 are endemic to the island of New Guinea, and four species are found in both regions. The various species have a number of common names, including bettong, kangaroo, pademelon, potoroo, quokka, rat kangaroo, rock wallaby, tree kangaroo, wallaby and wallaroo. Illustrated in full colour, Australia’s Amazing Kangaroos will give readers insight into the world of this intriguing marsupial – an animal that has pride of place on the Australian Coat of Arms.

Chasing Kangaroos

Author: Tim Flannery
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802143716
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
The acclaimed naturalist celebrates his native Australia and one of its most extraordinary creatures as he examines how the kangaroo both shapes and is shaped by its environment, looks at Australia's natural history, and traces the evolution of the kangaroo.

Out There

Author: The Editors of Outside Magazine
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493030825
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
Longtime readers have come to understand that Outside’s true gift is in chronicling misadventure. That’s the common thread among the stories found in Out There—those memorable tales that begin with the promise that, even if no one’s life is necessarily hanging in the balance, something may go horribly awry at any moment, and that documenting this misfortune will inevitably yield rich comedic material or a surprisingly poignant moment. Or sometimes both. Out There chronicles fringe athletes, fitness freaks, and others obsessed by ill-advised dreams. It takes us to far-flung places no sane person would want to go. What ties this collection together are the incredible voices of legendary Outside contributors such as David Quammen, Tim Cahill, Susan Orlean, Wells Tower, Christopher Solomon, Patrick Symmes, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Nick Paumgarten, and many others, who turn their subjects into literary gold and have helped to keep Outside in business for more than forty years.

A Goldhunter's Adventures

Author: William Henry Thomes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588

Book Description

Going Places

Author: Robert Burgin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 161069385X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 605

Book Description
Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.

Austral English

Author: Edward Ellis Morris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108028799
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 553

Book Description
The first scholarly dictionary of Australian and New Zealand English, including loan words from indigenous languages, originally published in 1898.

An Explorer's Notebook

Author: Tim Flannery
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802192793
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
An invaluable collection of think pieces from a climate change expert and the author of the #1 international bestseller The Weather Makers. Tim Flannery is one of the world’s most influential scientists, a foremost expert on climate change credited with discovering more species than Charles Darwin. But Flannery didn’t come to his knowledge overnight. With its selection of exhilarating essays and articles written over the past twenty-five years, An Explorer’s Notebook charts the evolution of a young scientist doing fieldwork in remote locations to the major thinker who has changed the way we think about global warming. In over thirty pieces, Flannery writes about his journeys in the jungles of New Guinea and Indonesia, about the extraordinary people he met and the species he discovered. He writes about matters as wide-ranging as love, insects, population, water, and the stresses we put on the environment. He shows us how we can better predict our future by understanding the profound history of life on Earth. And he chronicles the seismic shift in the world’s attitude toward climate change. An Explorer’s Notebook is classic Flannery—wide-ranging, eye-opening science, conveyed with richly detailed storytelling. “Tim Flannery is in the league of all-time great explorers like Dr. David Livingstone.” —Sir David Attenborough

Austral English

Author: Edward Ellis Morris
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Australian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 562

Book Description

Wild At Heart

Author: Charmaine Ross
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0857972944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Documentary maker Dan Masters is completely out of his comfort zone in outback Australia. Passionate park ranger, Victoria Price, couldn't be more at home in the wilderness. After Victoria saves Dan from the jaws of a ferocious crocodile, she can't get away from him fast enough. But her amazing rescue has been filmed and when the film's investors see the footage, they demand Dan do whatever it takes to get Victoria involved in the movie. Ordered to take part, Victoria reluctantly joins Dan on safari where they fight poachers, fire ants and a powerful attraction for each other that becomes increasingly difficult to deny. But desire is a dangerous game in this riotous romantic comedy...

The Alice Equation

Author: Davina Stone
Publisher: Feather and Stone Publishing
ISBN: 0645006513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
Three months of fake dating your best friend? No problem. Unless you are an anxiety-prone bookworm called Alice Montgomery, and you’ve had a secret crush on said best friend since uni. Aaron Blake has no intention of falling for anyone, he’s pretty sure he missed out on the love gene. And certainly never, ever Alice. She’s his only friend-who-is-a-girl, and no way is he going to mess that up. But when Alice agrees to fake date Aaron to help him land a top attorney job, (on the condition he teaches her how to flirt), Aaron soon finds out that friendship first and attraction second is an equation he’s never done the math on. And when secrets from the past surface with dramatic consequences, both Alice and Aaron will have to re-do the sums on this crazy little thing called love… A sweet and steamy friends-to-lovers romance about finding love and finding out who you really are…