"This is exactly the sort of book I love and Canberra science historian Ann Moyal does it very well."
The koala is both an Australian icon and an animal that has attained 'flagship' status around the world. Yet its history tells a different story. While the koala figured prominently in Aboriginal Dreaming and Creation stories, its presence was not recorded in Australia until 15 years after white settlement. Then it would figure as a scientific oddity, despatched to museums in Britain and Europe, a native animal driven increasingly from its habitat by tree felling and human settlement, and a subject of relentless hunting by trappers for its valuable fur. It was not until the late 1920s that slowly emerging protective legislation and the enterprise of private protectors came to its aid. This book surveys the koala's fascinating history, its evolutionary survival in Australia for over 30 million years, its strikingly adaptive physiognomy, its private life, and the strong cultural impact it has had through its rich fertilisation of Australian literature. The work also focuses on the complex problems of Australia's national wildlife and conservation policies and the challenges surrounding the environmental, economic and social questions concerning koala management. Koala embraces the story of this famous marsupial in an engaging historical narrative, extensively illustrated from widely sourced pictorial material.
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Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Nº de ref. del artículo: G0643094016I2N00
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Librería: medimops, Berlin, Alemania
Condición: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. Nº de ref. del artículo: M00643094016-G
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Librería: Browsers' Bookstore, CBA, Albany, OR, Estados Unidos de America
hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: very good. A nice copy. Clean text, solid binding. Dust Jacket protected by mylar cover. Minor handling wear to dust jacket. Nº de ref. del artículo: mon0000184147
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Librería: Aardvark Book Depot, Shorewood, WI, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. 8x5.5", x+246 pp, b&w and color illus. Inscription on reverse of half-title page, else clean, solid, VG in VG dj. Nº de ref. del artículo: 32361
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Librería: Amnesty Bookshop, Bristol, Bristol, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. In a grey hardcover with silver titles to spine. With an unclipped dust jacket with black and maroon titles to spine and front and a photograph to front. Grey end papers. Dedication signed and dated by the author to the half title. 248 pp. with a number of black and white illustrations. The book is in near fine condition with just a little bruising to the extremities of the cover. The binding is tight and the pages clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is very good with just very minor shelf-wear to the extremities. Inscribed by Author(s). Nº de ref. del artículo: 911644
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Librería: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
20.0 x 13.0cms, 246pp, b/w illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are: 'the land that waited'; science & art; putting the animals on the map; the upside-down world; the indigenous people; field & metropolis; fire, fur & guns; the literary koala; Colin MacKenzie & the amazing koala shoulder; the new protectors; being & doing; the survivor?; up close & personal. Nº de ref. del artículo: 195111
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Librería: Boodle Books, Millmerran, QLD, Australia
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. THE CUTEST LITTLE BOOK ON KOALA'S IN VERY FINE ORDER. Nº de ref. del artículo: 005066
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Librería: *bibliosophy*, Exeter, Reino Unido
Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 2008, hardback in jacket, 246 pages, illus. mostly b&w, some colour| gently read copy - clean and bright, tight spine, and free of name, notes etc | jacket is clean and bright, shows light shelf wear | dispatched within two working days by Royal Mail - with tracking for international orders. Nº de ref. del artículo: 210102koa1234
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