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Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
Category: Nature
It is hard to overstate just how unusual Europe was towards the end of the age of the dinosaurs. It was a dynamic island arc whose individual landmasses were made up of diverse geological types, including ancient continental fragments, raised segments of oceanic crust, and land newly minted by volcanic ...Show more
Extraordinary Elephants by Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
Category: Education
Extraordinary Elephants is the brilliant new book in Team Flannery's fascinating animal picture-book series that shines the spotlight on some of the most beloved and surprising creatures around the world! There's so much more to elephants than their enormous size! Have you heard about their excellent me ...Show more
Green Ideas Slipcase by Greta Thunberg; Robin Wall Kimmerer; Dai Qing; Wangari Maathai; Jared Diamond; Wendell Berry; Edward O. Wilson; James Lovelock; Masanobu Fukuoka; Arne Næss; Rachel Carson; Naomi Klein; Aldo Leopold; Timothy Morton; George Monbiot; Bill McKibben; Amitav Ghosh; Tim Flannery; Terry Tempest Williams; Michael Pollan
Category: Philosophy
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement - now in one complete setOver the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Thei ...Show more
Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
Category: Non-Fiction
Tim Flannery's first major book since The Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrou ...Show more
Here on Earth : An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
Category: Non-Fiction
"We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature - of our true abilities and of our history - is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might, driven forward by the power of our minds - a civilisation which is transforming our Earth. We are master ...Show more
Jiggliest Jellyfish (HB) by Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
Category: Education
Jiggliest Jellyfish is the brilliant new book in a series spotlighting the most fascinating creatures around the world, from real-life explorer Tim Flannery! You might think that there’s not much to jellyfish, but this book will make you think again. Did you know that jellyfish can thrive in waters that ...Show more
Life & Adventures Of William Buckley by John Morgan; Tim Flannery (ed.)
Category: Australiana
'At 2.00 PM on Sunday, 6 July 1835, a giant of a man shambled into the camp left by John Batman at indented Head near Geelong . he was six foot five and seven-eighths inches tall (198cm) in his bare feet. Though clearly a European, and "well proportioned with an erect military gait" the visitor spoke no ...Show more
Life And Adventures 1776-1801 - Text Classics by Nicol John And Flannery Tim
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
"At length, almost to our sorrow, we made the land upon the 3rd of June 1790, just one year all but one day from our leaving the river. We landed all our convicts safe." First published in 1822, this is the extraordinary story of John Nicol, a sailor who circled the globe twice, fought Napoleon's navy, ...Show more
Life On Us: Everything that lives ON us or IN us, but is NOT us! by Tim Flannery, Emma Flannery
Category: Children's Fiction
Life On Us is a first-of-its-kind exploration of everything that lives ON and IN us, but is NOT us, from one of the world's greatest living explorers and scientists! Welcome to the fascinating world of Life On Us! Our bodies are home to tens of thousands of species that aren't at all human - on our sk ...Show more
Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery
Category: Nature
Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a ...Show more
Life and Adventures William Buckley: Text Classics by Tim Flannery, William Buckley
Category: Australiana
In 1803 the convict William Buckley, a former soldier, escaped from the first official settlement in Victoria, near Sorrento on Port Phillip Bay. For three decades the 'wild white man' lived with Aborigines around the bay, before giving himself up in 1835. First published in 1852, The Life and Adventure ...Show more