In his most personal book yet, Tim Flannery, the internationally
acclaimed author of The Weather Makers, draws on three decades of
travel, research, and field work to craft a love letter to his native
land and one of its most unique and beloved inhabitants: the kangaroo.
Crisscrossing the continent, Flannery shows us how the destiny of this
extraordinary creature is inseparable from the environment that created
it. Along the way he uses encounters with ancient aboriginal cultures
and eccentric fossil hunters, farmers and scientists, kangaroo advocates
and kangaroo hunters, to explore how Australia's deserts and rain
forests have shaped human responses to the continent--and how kangaroos
have evolved to handle the resulting challenges. Ultimately, Chasing
Kangaroos is a captivating blend of memoir, travel, natural history,
and evolutionary science--and further proof of Flannery's "offhand
interdisciplinary brilliance" (Entertainment Weekly).