• ebook
• 268
• Among the Islands
• Tim Flannery
• English
• 14 May 2019
• 9781921921063

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Read & Download Among the Islands Among the Islands Free download Í 109 That young scientist found himself ghost whispering snake wrestling uadoi hunting and plunging waist deep into a sludge of maggot infested faeces in search of a small bat that turned out not to be earth shatteringly interesting Now one of Australias greatest scientists Tim Flannery looks back Details Flannery s exploits as a zoologist in the Pacific Islands He has many adventures searching for bats rats and bandicoots that have only rarely been sighted The tales he tells are interesting enough I suppose but I m curious why they are being published now These field studies were done in the 1980s and 90s and thus are 20 to 25 years old now Are they still pertinent Did Flannery see an easy and nice payer by dredging up his old field notes and making them into a book

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Read & Download Among the Islands Among the Islands Free download Í 109 On his ground breaking fieldwork With accounts of discovering naming and sometimes eating animal species new to science and stories of historic expeditions and colourful local customs he takes us on an enthralling journey through some of the most diverse and spectacular environments on Earth Mr Flannery is one of those from the school of hunt down one of everything and kill it culture I till wonder why they re called scientists what happens when they catch the one and only left of anything and kill it This kind of thinking is part of the problem behind the idea of Western Man It isn t good enough just to be left as a miraculous adaptation of evolution with a life of its own to live but all part of defining each and every bit of anything that comes to be on Planet Earth That s why I had a hard time digging this book He does conduct an apologia for his species at the end and he did happen to discover ten completely uniue species in his romp through New Guinea the Solomon Islands New Caledonia and the Bismarck Islands But unless you are a forceps and butterfly net wielding dweeb form the English Olde Schoole I dunno if you will like it much or not Even the presence of naked women rubbing against him clad in only corn cob pipes can t shake Mr Flannery s tweedy determination to conduct his most serious Polynesian mammalian research Admirable I suppose if you are cut of the same cloth

Read & Download Among the Islands Among the Islands Free download Í 109 A fabulous account of hunting trapping and recording mammal species in the Pacific Islands Twenty five years ago a zoologist from the Australian Museum in Sydney set off to research the mammals of the Pacific Islands Starting with a survey of one of the most inaccessible islands in Melanesia This is certainly an important book for someone who is interested in the mammals of the South Pacific and the natural history of the area Tim Flannery is a Zoologist from Australia who looked for signs of species of bats and rats that exist in the Pacific Islands of Papua New Guinea The Solomon Islands Fiji and New Caledonia Flannery is taking previous knowledge of these mammals specimens from museums mostly from the nineteenth century and tried to update this knowledge by going back to the islands where the mammals had been taken from I particularly liked the chapters on Fiji and New Caledonia