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4 Classic Quarterly Essays on the Australian Story by David Malouf, Guy Rundle, Mungo MacCallum, Tim Flannery
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Each essay here offers an intriguing angle on the Australian story. There is David Malouf's elegant and truthful account of the British inheritance and Mungo MacCallum's devastating chronicling of the refugee crisis and Australian history.
A Warning from the Golden Toad by Tim Flannery
$9.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North Pole, deserts to rainforests, Tim Flannery tells the story of the earth's climate, and how we have changed it.
Among the Islands : Adventures in the Pacific by Tim Flannery
$32.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Tim Flannery is one of the world's most influential scientists, credited with discovering more species than Darwin. In Among the Islands Flannery recounts a series of expeditions he made at the dawn of his career to the strange tropical islands of the South Pacific, a great arc stretching nearly 4,000 m ...Show more
Among the Islands: Adventures in the Pacific by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Twenty-five years ago, a young curator of mammals from the Australian Museum in Sydney set out to research the fauna of the Pacific Islands. Starting with a survey of one of the most inaccessible islands in Melanesia - Woodlark, in the Trobriands Group - that young scientist found himself ghost-whisperi ...Show more
An Explorer's Notebook: Essays on Life, History and Climate by Tim Flannery
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
An Explorer's Notebook is a fascinating and exhilarating selection of Tim Flannery's essays and articles written over two decades. In them we see his evolution from the young scientist conducting field work in remote locations to the influential commentator on climate change. His bestselling book The We ...Show more
Atmosphere of Hope : Seaching for the Solutions to the Climate Crisis by Tim Flannery
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
"A decade after his internationally bestselling The Weather Makers, acclaimed scientist and author Tim Flannery argues that Earth's climate system is approaching a crisis. Catastrophe is not inevitable, but time is fast running out. Atmosphere of Hope provides both a snapshot of the trouble we are in an ...Show more
Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis by Tim Flannery
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A timely intervention on climate change from the internationally acclaimed scientist and author of the hugely influential The Weather Makers. How close is the great climate crisis? Can our desire to overcome it drive humanity's next great waves of positive technological economic and social revolution? ...Show more
Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived by Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Reading Level: near fine
Big Meg charts the evolution of megalodon, its super-predator status for about fifteen million years and its decline and extinction. It delves into the fossil record to answer questions about its behaviour and role in shaping marine ecosystems as well as its impact on the human psyche. It contains stori ...Show more
Birth of Melbourne by Tim Flannery
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
In 1835 John Batman sailed up the Yarra and was astonished by the beauty of the land. It was a temperate Kakadu, teeming with wildlife and with soils rich enough to spawn pastoral empires. With the discovery of gold, the city was transformed almost overnight into 'marvellous Melbourne'. And yet, as Tim ...Show more
Country by Tim Flannery
$32.00 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Country is a panoramic book about a scientist and a continent. In this, his most thrilling and personal book yet, Tim Flannery writes a love letter to our great land, drawing on three decades of extensive travel, research and field work to reveal its unique nature. As he describes his own passionate en ...Show more
Country: A Continent, a Scientist and a Kangaroo by Tim Flannery
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Country is about the unique nature of Australia and about Flannery's own journey toward understanding it. Travelling thousands of kilometres, he encounters Aboriginal cultures and examines Europeans trying to understand this land. He begins to understand how Australia's deserts and rainforests have shap ...Show more
Europe: A Natural History by Tim Flannery
$34.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made up of diverse geological types, including ancient continental fragments, raised segments of oceanic crust, and land newly minted by volcanic ...Show more