Chasing Kangaroos : A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature (Paperback)

from VioletBramble

This is basically a biology and ecology book, but is also part memoir. Flannery spends decades searching the Australian outback and outer islands for the fossil remains of now extinct species of kangaroo. He compares these remains to the anatomy of the over 70 species of kangaroo in existence in ...

from horomnizon

The tagline and picture made me believe this was more of an adventure than it really was - it is a science and history book. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it was not nearly as interesting a read as I had anticipated. His search, to me as an American, was confusing - even with the...

from John_T_Stewart

I enjoyed this book more than I had expected to. The story of an Australian palaeontologist in the 1970s to 1990s also shows us a little seen side of Australia that has been lost in history. The struggle for proper funding in the sciences has always been there. Finally reading this book will poss...

from John_T_Stewart

I enjoyed this book more than I had expected to. The story of an Australian palaeontologist in the 1970s to 1990s also shows us a little seen side of Australia that has been lost in history. The struggle for proper funding in the sciences has always been there. Finally reading this book will poss...