Essays, speeches and collective musings from one of Australia's greatest minds. From climate change to art, books, and the environment, there is something here for every Flannery fan.
Tim Flannery is a paleontologist, explorer and conservationist, a leading writer on climate change, and the 2007 Australian of the Year. His books include the award-winning international bestseller The Weather Makers, Here on Earth and Atmosphere of Hope. He is currently chief councillor of the Climate Council.
‘This man is a national treasure, and we should heed his every
word.’
*Sunday Telegraph*
‘Flannery is a master storyteller, with an eye for the revealing
detail.’
*Australian Book Review*
‘Flannery is a writer who sneezes at political correctness and
charges into the densely land-mined territory of the biological
determinants of human behaviour.’
*Washington Post*
‘Flannery synthesises a vast range of scientific studies and a
decent selection of historical and cultural writings, leavening
those with his own forceful ideas.’
*New York Times Book Review*
‘No one tells it better than Tim Flannery.’
*David Suzuki*
'There are 35 years’ worth [of essays] here, and they couldn’t be
more exciting if Indiana Jones himself had written them.'
*North & South*
‘It is a book which carries its learning lightly…It is approachable
and useful while offering crucial insights.’
*Stuff.co.nz*
‘Mind-boggling in its intellectual range…[Life] conveys his
infectious curiosity, enthusiasm and compassion in a lucid prose
rare in scientific writing.’
*Sydney Morning Herald*
‘This is a gem of a collection, a tribute to Flannery’s academic
and reflective energies and passions.’
*Otago Daily Times*
'Flannery takes both physical and intellectual risks in his
explorations. It is the interweaving of these that makes the essays
so vivid…The range and breadth of these essays is at times
breathtaking: it is invidious to select favourites from a
smorgasbord that stretches from tree-kangaroo foot bones to
cosmology…Life is a wild and wonderful ride.'
*Australian Book Review*
'Flannery takes both physical and intellectual risks in his
explorations. It is the interweaving of these that makes the essays
so vivid…The range and breadth of these essays is at times
breathtaking: it is invidious to select favourites from a
smorgasbord that stretches from tree-kangaroo foot bones to
cosmology…Life is a wild and wonderful ride.'
*Australian Book Review*
‘For decades Flannery’s essays and books have offered crucial
summaries and clarifying perspectives on global biodiversity,
climate, Australian history, mammals, megafauna and possibility for
alternative energy sources...Life: Selected Writings is a testimony
to [his] independent brilliance, and also to his canny talent for
combining the high pitch and the common touch.'
*Australian*
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