ALSO BY TIM FLANNERY
Mammals of New Guinea
Tree Kangaroos: A Curious Natural History with R. Martin, P. Schouten and A. Szalay
The Future Eaters
Possums of the World: a Monograph of the Phalangeroidea with P. Schouten
Mammals of the South West Pacific and Moluccan Islands
Watkin Tench’s 1788 (ed.)
John Nicol, Life and Adventures 1776–1801 (ed.)
Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure
The Explorers (ed.)
The Birth of Sydney (ed.)
Terra Australis: Matthew Flinders’ Great Adventures in the Circumnavigation of Australia (ed.)
The Eternal Frontier
A Gap in Nature with P. Schouten
John Morgan, The Life and Adventures of William Buckley (ed.)
The Birth of Melbourne (ed.)
Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World (ed.)
Astonishing Animals with P. Schouten
Country
The Weather Makers
An Explorer’s Notebook
Here on Earth
Among the Islands
The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish
Atmosphere of Hope
Sunlight and Seaweed
Europe
About Tim Flannery
Tim Flannery is a paleontologist, explorer and conservationist, a leading writer on climate change, and the 2007 Australian of the Year. His books include the award-winning international bestseller The Weather Makers, Here on Earth and Atmosphere of Hope. He is currently chief councillor of the Climate Council.
Praise for Tim Flannery
‘Tim Flannery is the real thing: a man with a gift for lucid exposition, who can really make his subject come alive.’
Literary Review [UK]
‘Like Jared Diamond and Stephen Jay Gould, Tim Flannery has the ability to take complex ideas and—seemingly effortlessly—make them accessible.’
Sydney Morning Herald
‘Flannery’s writerly art stirs the imagination to pay attention.’
Australian Literary Review
‘Flannery [is] a writer who sneezes at political correctness and charges into the densely land-mined territory of the biological determinants of human behaviour.’
Washington Post
‘Flannery synthesises a vast range of scientific studies and a decent selection of historical and cultural writings, leavening those with his own forceful ideas.’
‘Flannery has a great ability to distil complex subject matter into something you can wrap your head around.’
North & South
‘This man is a national treasure, and we should heed his every word.’
Sunday Telegraph
‘Tim Flannery is in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.’
Sir David Attenborough
‘Flannery writes with a natural storyteller’s ear for action, intrigue and metaphor…This type of history, written in broad strokes, reads with the same intensity and energy of time-lapse photography.’
Canberra Times
‘[Flannery] is a master storyteller, with an eye for the revealing detail.’
Australian Book Review
‘Tim Flannery is a man of dazzling talents: scientist, climate change activist, academic, explorer.’
NZ Noted
‘No one tells it better than Tim Flannery.’
David Suzuki
‘[Flannery is] one of the world’s greatest zoologists… who’s probably discovered more new species than Darwin. He’s a remarkable man.’
Redmond O’Hanlon
‘If you are not already addicted to Tim Flannery’s writing, discover him now.’
Jared Diamond
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Published by The Text Publishing Company, 2019.
Many of the pieces in this collection have previously appeared in the following books by Tim Flannery and other publications: Among the Islands, Astonishing Animals, Australian Book Review, The Birth of Melbourne, The Birth of Sydney, Country, The Eternal Frontier, Europe, The Explorers, Here on Earth, The Hidden Life of Trees (by Peter Wohlleben), John Nicol, Life and Adventures 1776–1801, The Life and Adventures of William Buckley, Monthly, The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish, Natural History, New York Review of Books, Sunlight and Seaweed, Throwim Way Leg, Times Literary Supplement, Tree Kangaroos: A Curious Natural History, Watkin Tench’s 1788, The Weather Makers.
Book design by Imogen Stubbs.
Typeset in Granjon by J&M Typesetting.
ISBN: 9781922268297 (hardback)
ISBN: 9781925923001 (ebook)
A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia.