num_pages: 432
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
titlecomplete: The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
genres: Australia, Nature, History, Biology, Environment, Science, Nonfiction, Natural History, Ecology, Anthropology
ratings_count: 892
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: The Age Book of the Year
publisher: Grove Press