The Future Eaters
Subtitle: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: October 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780802139436
Subjects: Life Sciences - Ecology; History; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Environmental Studies; Nature; History: World; Natural history; Australia & New Zealand - General; Nature / Ecology; Effect of human beings on; Australasia; Extinction (Biology)
First sentence: To write a history of Australia without reference to its geographic neighbours would be as senseless and uninformative as to tell the story of Antony without Cleopatra, of Romeo without Juliet.