Sydney: Reed Books, (1994. first edition). Octavo, photographs, texta mark bottom edge, signed by the author, fine copy in dustwrapper.

One of the great modern masterpieces of modern Australian natural history writing, the hardcover was a small print run. A brilliant account of the pre and post ecological and human history of the Australian continent.

Caledonia, and New Guinea some sixty millennia ago, and as they had elsewhere across the globe, immediately began altering the environment by hunting and trapping animals and gathering fruits and vegetables. In this illustrated iconoclastic ecological history, acclaimed scientist and historian Tim Flannery follows the environment of the islands through the age of dinosaurs to the age of mammals and the arrival of humanity on its shores, to the coming of European colonizers and the advent of the industrial society that would change nature's balance forever.

"An original, very important thesis that gives us a powerful insight into our current destructive path" David Suzuki.