Where song began
Subtitle: Australia's birds and how they changed the world
By: Tim Low
Edition: Yale edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780300221664
Subjects: Evolution; Ecology; Birds; History
Other titles: Australia's birds and how they changed the world
Notes: "First published by Penguin Group (Australia) 2014"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-377) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the Yale edition; title: Introduction; title: Food worth defending; title: Forests that exude energy; title: The first song; title: New Guinea : Australia's northern province; title: Land of parrots; title: The last of the forest giants; title: Australia as a centre of origin; title: The forest makers; title: Of grass and fire; title: Life in a liquid landscape; title: A continent compared; title: People and birds.