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  • Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956- author.
     
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    An explorer's notebook : essays on life, history & climate / Tim Flannery.
    by Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956- author.
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    New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2014]
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  • Human ecology.
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  • Human beings -- Effect of environment on.
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  • Human beings -- Effect of climate on.
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    9780802122315 (hbk.) :
    0802122310 (hbk.)
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    xi, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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    Part 1: In the field, 1985-2002. Beginnings ; Australia's oldest marsupial? ; Journey to the stars ; Prickled, not pricked ; Emperor, king and little pig ; The fall and rise of Bulmer's fruit bat ; The case of the missing meat eaters ; Irian Jaya's new tree kangaroo ; Men of the forest ; Frenchmen dreaming ; Sydney gone wrong? It's Werrong ; What is love? ; Australia : overpopulated or last frontier? ; A hostile land ; The day, the land, the people ; After the future : Australia's new extinction crisis -- Part 2: On other people's words, 1999-2012. Wonders of a lost world ; Glow in the dark ; The mneme-ing of life ; Who came first? ; The lady or the tiger? ; Flaming creatures ; The heart of the country ; The priest and the hobbit ; When a scorpion meets a scorpion ; What is a tree? ; Getting to know them ; A heroine in defense of nature -- Part 3: Climate, 2006-2007. Lies about power ; Australian of the year 2007 ; Saving water and energy ; Tropical forests ; A new adventure.
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    Best known today for The Weather Makers, his #1 international bestseller, Tim Flannery is one of the world's most influential scientists, a foremost expert on climate change credited with discovering more species than Charles Darwin. But Flannery didn't come to his knowledge overnight. With its selection of exhilarating essays and articles written over the past 25 years, An Explorer's Notebook charts the evolution of a young scientist doing fieldwork in remote locations to the major thinker who has changed the way we think about global warming.
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