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Tooth & Nail: The Story of the Rabbit in Australia
Seller: E. Manning Books, Robertsdale, AL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Text Publishing. 1999. Softcover (16 x 24 cm), 246 pages. ISBN: 1876485086. Good+ condition. Bumped. Lightly creased. Scratched/scuffed. Pages tanning, foxing. "When the First Fleet arrived at Sydney Cove in 1788, its cargo included five rabbits. A hundred years later this small, attractive animal had colonised Australia. A survivor of drought, fire, flood, disease, predators and poisons, it changed the continent forever. 'Tooth and Nail' is a luminous and hugely entertaining history of how people have responded to the rabbit. Coman describes everything from traps to ferreting, from barrier fences to Louis Pasteur's attempt to infect Australian rabbits with cholera. And he tells the extraordinary postwar story of the battle agains the rabbit, including the unprecedented impact of myxomatosis and calicivirus disease." Weight (before packaging): 390g. Seller Inventory # 1694
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Tooth and Nail: The Story of the Rabbit in Australia
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Text Publishing, Melbourne Victoria, 1999
ISBN 10: 1876485086
ISBN 13: 9781876485085
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Seller: Good Reading Secondhand Books, Benalla, VIC, Australia
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. xiii 246 pages, indexed and illustrated. The pages are tanned, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. Dedication on the front end paper from Brian Coman "When the First Fleet arrived at Sydney Cove in 1788, its cargo included a small number of rabbits. A hundred years later rabbits had colonised vast areas of the continent, bringing irreversible change to the country's ecology. Tooth and Nail is a beautifully written and wonderfully entertaining history about human reactions to the rabbit. A survivor of drought, fire, flood, diseases, predators and poisons, this small and rather attractive creature has irrevocably transformed our environment and influenced social, political and cultural life in this country. Coman describes everything from nineteenth-century poisoning techniques to destroying rabbit warrens with explosives, from the many weird theories circulating as to how to destroy the rabbit to Louis Pasteur's attempts to infect Australian rabbits with chicken cholera. He tells the story of a Geelong grazier who was one of the first to bring rabbits to Australia. And the book charts the extraordinary postwar story of the battle against the rabbit, including the unprecedented impact of myxomatosis and rabbit haemorrhagic disease. Tooth and Nail is an indispensable history of how Europeans, through the introduction of a single species, changed Australia forever." (back cover). Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 018897