An Explorer's Notebook: Essays on Life, History, and Climate - Softcover

Flannery, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802122973 ISBN 13: 9780802122971

Publisher: Grove Press, 2015

Synopsis

Best known for his #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 thirty years, An Explorer’s Notebook charts the evolution of a young scientist doing fieldwork in remote locations into the major thinker who has changed the way we think about global warming. In these 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.

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About the Author

Tim Flannery is a scientist, explorer, and conservationist. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific papers and many books including the international bestseller The Weather Makers>o?, which has been translated into more than 20 languages, Throwim' Way Leg, Here on Earth, and Among the Islands. He was named Australian of the Year in 2007, and from 2011 to 2013 he was head of the Australian Climate Change Commission.

From Booklist

Best known for his best-selling The Weather Makers (2006), Flannery offers a look back on his career and how he developed from a curious young researcher into a renowned expert on climate change. This collection of essays spans 25 years, beginning with Flannery as a young researcher studying kangaroos and fossils in Australia, later as a biologist exploring the rain forests of Melanesia, and more recently as an environmentalist wrestling with issues of climate change. He describes defleshing a kangaroo road-kill carcass to collect specimens, being visited in mountain camps by a bird of paradise, stumbling across an unknown species of rat in the rain forest, and negotiating with the people of the Solomon Islands for what they considered a fair price for entering their land. He offers insights behind scientific reconstruction of ancient species and ties the evolutionary process to more modern-day concerns about a changing environment. Flannery also offers observations on the interconnections of life, love, and resources as we address challenges to the environment. Photographs enhance Flannery’s richly detailed accounts of his work and life as an explorer. --Vanessa Bush

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0802122973
• ISBN 13: 9780802122971
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336