A fascinating study of the environmental history of Australia, New Zealand, and the islands of the Pacific, from the time of the dinosaurs to the present day.
· A chronology covers key phenomena and events in the region's environmental history from before the dinosaurs to the present day
· Includes an annotated bibliography detailing the major works on the history of the region's environment
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Why do kangaroos hop? Or koala bears nap so often? From how animals cope with the extremes of the Australian outback to the tragic impact of early human settlement on Easter Island, this volume provides a scholarly yet accessible survey of the environmental history of one quarter of the world's surface.
Don Garden is associate professor in the Department of History & Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
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