The Future Eaters: Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People - Hardcover

Flannery, Timothy

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9780730104223: The Future Eaters: Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People

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ISBN 10: 0730104222 ISBN 13: 9780730104223

Publisher: Reed Books Australia, 1994

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In this illustrated ecological history, acclaimed scientist and historian Flannery follows the environment of the islands through the age of dinosaurs to the age of mammals and the arrival of humans, to the European colonizers and industrial society. Penetrating, gripping, and provocative, this book combines natural history, anthropology, and ecology on an epic scale. Illustrations.

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An ecological history of Australasia, which describes how human beings have consumed the resources they would need for their own future since the first adventurers made their way from the Afro-Asian homeland to travel down the long chain of islands to Australasia.

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