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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Australian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The Polly Principle
Author: Davina Stone
Publisher: Feather and Stone Publishing
ISBN: 064500653X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
She’s running from love… He’s just running away. Social worker by day, sex siren by night Polly Fletcher has a clear set of principles that guide her life; her Tinder app, her Jimmy Choo shoes and a strict no-commitment rule. So when she meets a sexy, silver-eyed stranger at a friend’s wedding, all she’s after is a wild night between the sheets. Solo Jakoby has his Ducati motorbike, a backpack of his belongings, and a disaster he’s escaping in Sydney. And sure, he’s wildly attracted to the curvaceous beauty, but he has a job to do, and some unpleasant memories to forget. So what if their time together blew his mind? It was just one night, right? But when Solo and Polly are flung together in quite different circumstances, it seems the chemistry between them won’t let up. And as they start to uncover each other’s secrets, maybe this crazy attraction is set to turn into something deeper? Something that might just challenge Polly’s firmly upheld principle—to never, ever give away her heart? Find out in this steamy, heartwarming second novel in the Laws of Love series.
Publisher: Feather and Stone Publishing
ISBN: 064500653X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
She’s running from love… He’s just running away. Social worker by day, sex siren by night Polly Fletcher has a clear set of principles that guide her life; her Tinder app, her Jimmy Choo shoes and a strict no-commitment rule. So when she meets a sexy, silver-eyed stranger at a friend’s wedding, all she’s after is a wild night between the sheets. Solo Jakoby has his Ducati motorbike, a backpack of his belongings, and a disaster he’s escaping in Sydney. And sure, he’s wildly attracted to the curvaceous beauty, but he has a job to do, and some unpleasant memories to forget. So what if their time together blew his mind? It was just one night, right? But when Solo and Polly are flung together in quite different circumstances, it seems the chemistry between them won’t let up. And as they start to uncover each other’s secrets, maybe this crazy attraction is set to turn into something deeper? Something that might just challenge Polly’s firmly upheld principle—to never, ever give away her heart? Find out in this steamy, heartwarming second novel in the Laws of Love series.
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...
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...