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Paperback. Pub Date: 2007 Pages: 272 Publisher: Penguin In his most thrilling and personal book Tim Flannery writes a love letter to his Homeland. Drawing on three decades of EXTENSIVE The Travel Research and Field Work to reveal its unique nature . Flannery shows how the kangaroo is inseparable from the environment that created it. And he reveals the vast continent to be a land of subtlety and complexity that becomes comprehensible to those who take the time to learn its hidden and ancient languages.
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In his most thrilling and personal book, Tim Flannery writes a love letter to his homeland, drawing on three decades of extensive travel, research and field work to reveal its unique nature. Flannery shows how the kangaroo is inseparable from the environment that created it. And he reveals the vast continent to be a land of subtlety and complexity that becomes comprehensible to those who take the time to learn its hidden and ancient languages.
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'...from beginning to end it is absorbing, funny and wondrously
learned' -- Bill Bryson, The Times
`Flannery is a playful Antipodean Stephen Jay Gould'
-- Sydney Morning Herald
learned' -- Bill Bryson, The Times
`Flannery is a playful Antipodean Stephen Jay Gould'
-- Sydney Morning Herald
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0141026944
- ISBN 13 9780141026947
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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