Libby Robin is a historian of ideas at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University and the Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia, Canberra. She is the author of the prize-winning books How a Continent Created a Nation (2007) and The Flight of the Emu: A Hundred Years of Australian Omithology (2001). Leo Joseph is Director of the Australian National Wildlife Collection at CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra. Rob Heinsohn is Associate Professor at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, where his work focuses on the evolutionary ecology and conservation biology of birds.
"The introductory chapter sets the scene for this fascinating and
timely book about the adaptive behaviours of Australian birds to
surviving in a boom or bust situation and the effect of human
behaviour on this...I would highly recommend this book to members
both as a gift and for personal use."--Yvonne Paterson, The
Naturalists News
"A refreshing strength is that these scientists and historians do
not sacrifice the facts for the story or engage in the hyperbole
that characterises so much magazine-style popularisation of
science. The writing is engaging yet well referenced so that
students inspired by the stories will find the book a springboard
for new research projects....content rich yet friendly to read."--
(11/01/2009)
"This book is a brilliant idea. To have someone like Rose writing
alongside ornithologists, a philosopher, an archaeologist and so
on, is a heady mix. As I read this fascinating book, I asked myself
whether any one person could have written it...the diversity of
views here is part of what makes this book exceptional..."--
(10/01/2009)
"This fascinating book has something for all readers. I found many
chapters were quite engaging, particularly those on Zebra Finches,
Australian Pelican (always a fascinating bird to birdos) and
especially the woodswallows. There are many new ideas or ways of
looking at bird behaviour and their cycles which makes for lots of
interesting reading. A well referenced book can be a delight to
read and the current book does this superbly without interrupting
the flow of ideas and text in each chapter. I can thoroughly
recommend this book to both the general natural history reader and
those in birding groups."-- (08/01/2009)
"This is a beautifully produced little hardback, with charming
small black-and-white chapter heading illustrations taken from
Gould (except of course for the Genyornis sketch), and it is a
pleasure to handle and to read."--Marian Maddern, Park Watch
(09/01/2009)
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