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Author:

Low, Tim, 1956- author.

Title:

Where song began : Australia's birds and how they changed the world / Tim Low.

Edition:

Yale edition.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xi, 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Subject:

Birds--Australia--History.
Birds--Evolution--Australia.
Birds--Ecology--Australia.
Ecology--Australia.

Notes:

Originally published: Melbourne, Vic. : Penguin Group (Australia), 2014. With new preface. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Preface to the Yale edition -- Introduction -- Food worth defending -- Forests that exude energy -- The first song -- New Guinea : Australia's northern province -- Land of parrots -- The last of the forest giants -- Australia as a centre of origin -- The forest makers -- Of grass and fire -- Life in a liquid landscape -- A continent compared -- People and birds.

ISBN:

9780300221664
0300221665

OCLC:

(OCoLC)939994070

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)