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Penguin
Language
English
Pages
258

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Country: a continent, a scientist and a kangaroo
2007, Penguin
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Country: A Continent, a Scientist & a Kangaroo
January 2005, Text Pub. Co.
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Country
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Table of Contents

T Map
t Introduction : Vanished country
g 1. A t failed circumnavigation
g 2. t Captain Cook's kangaroo
g 3. t Quokkas, Euros and stinkers
g 4. The t last of the frontier
g 5. t Of nailtails and nailed tyres
g 6. t Kangaroo essence
g 7. t Dead-end in the Inland Sea
g 8. The t mystery of hopping
g 9. The t brightest place on Earth
g 10. The t oldest kangaroo
g 11. t Skeletons in the dead centre
g 12. t Where the great roos came from
g 13. The t age of kangaroos
g 14. t Advancing with feet or stomach?
g 15. t Grass for the kangaroos
g 16. t Not formed for such work
g 17. t Land of giants
g 18. t Is the answer 46?
g 19. t World conquest
g 20. A t dingo-driven revolution
g 21. The t age of mammals in Australia
g 22. The t Groote Eylandt
g 23. The t true experts
g 24. t Symbols of the New Land
g 25. t Oolacunta!
g 26. t Re-making country
t Postscript
t Family tree
t Acknowledgments
t General bibliography
t Index.

Edition Notes

Originally published: Melbourne, Vic.: Text, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
919.4
Library of Congress
QL737.M35 F56 2007, DU105.2

The Physical Object

Pagination
[xi], 258 p., [8] p. of plates
Number of pages
258

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OL28422133M
Internet Archive
countrycontinent0000flan
ISBN 10
0141026944
ISBN 13
9780141026947
OCLC/WorldCat
78988764

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