Where song began [electronic resource] : Australia's birds and how they changed the world / Tim Low

Author:: Low, Tim, 1956-
Additional Titles:: Australia's birds and how they changed the world
Published:: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016.
Edition:: Yale edition.
Physical Description:: xi, 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

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Contents:

Preface to the Yale edition -- Introduction -- Food worth defending -- Forests that exude energy -- The first song -- New Guinea : Australia's northern province -- Land of parrots -- The last of the forest giants -- Australia as a centre of origin -- The forest makers -- Of grass and fire -- Life in a liquid landscape -- A continent compared -- People and birds.

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ISBN:

9780300221664 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0300221665 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Note:

Originally published: Melbourne, Vic. : Penguin Group (Australia), 2014. With new preface.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-377) and index.

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