If you want to know about kangaroos, a must-read. Flannery, however, is not the best writer and is a little redundant. He's also not so great at explaining the science bits in layterms.
I worked at the South Australian Museum while Tim Flannery was there, and several of the people he mentions in this book were people I had at least something to do with; this and a shared love of the Australian landscape made this book an easy favorite of mine. Did you know that that the kangaroo scrotum is located above the penis? I didn't, but I was able to observe this directly during my last...more
I worked at the South Australian Museum while Tim Flannery was there, and several of the people he mentions in this book were people I had at least something to do with; this and a shared love of the Australian landscape made this book an easy favorite of mine. Did you know that that the kangaroo scrotum is located above the penis? I didn't, but I was able to observe this directly during my last trip to the Australian outback. hide