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23 Ryan, P. Fiji’s Natural Heritage, Exisle Publishing, NZ, 2000.
24 Williams T. and Calvert, J. Fiji and the Fijians, Fiji Museum, Suva, 1858, 1985 (reprint), p. 239.
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid, 152.
28 Ibid, 153.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid, 155.
About the Author
TIM FLANNERY has written many award-winning books, including The Weather Makers, which reached #1 in Canada, An Explorer’s Notebook, Now or Never, and Here on Earth. He is the National Geographic Society’s Australasian representative and a director of the Australian Wildlife Conservancy. In January 2007 he was named Australian of the Year, and in 2011 he became Australia’s first climate commissioner. Visit him online at theweathermakers.org.
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Among the Islands
“A rollicking adventure story that will entertain amateur zoologists young and old … with interesting characters as well as fascinating creatures and spectacular environments.” —Bookseller + Publisher (Australia)
“Flannery’s prose is electric, aptly combining history, politics, and wide-eyed excitement as he recalls these experiences…. Absolutely fantastic in every sense of the word.” —Booklist
“An engaging mix of exotic science and picturesque travelogue through lands where monkey-faced bats have molars substantial enough to crack coconuts, king rats are as big as cats and slugs seemingly come ‘in every colour of the rainbow.’ … For readers, Among the Islands is a window to ‘a golden age before the twenty-first century intruded.’“ —The Seattle Times
“In his chest beats the wayfaring heart of a discoverer, and in this book, which details his colorful adventures among the flora and fauna of the South Pacific Islands, he reminds us that even right here on Earth, incredible things are waiting to be known.” —Newsweek
“Among the Islands is a rollicking good adventure-science read—something like what you’d get if Charles Darwin starred in an Indiana Jones flick.” —Audubon Magazine
“Flannery is a witty, good-humored writer with occasional flashes of lyricism and a seemingly endless supply of funny anecdotes…. But the point, as with all of Flannery’s books, is actually a serious one…. We cannot protect what is left of the world’s biodiversity, Flannery argues, unless we know what it is.” —The Boston Globe
“The author situates obscure animals in a worldwide perspective that entwines all living things, including humans, together…. A breathtaking, informative tour of faraway lands.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Part adventure romp and part political history but above all a love letter to nature and science.” —The Age (Australia)
“Flannery is a gifted writer…. It will be a hardened reader who can finish the book and escape without a romantic appreciation for island life and the mysterious beauty of evolution.” —The Dominion Post (New Zealand)
“Flannery recalls his earliest expedition with wonder and excitement…. A crackerjack storyteller as well as a scientist.” —Publishers Weekly
“An entertaining and informative account…. In a witty, anecdotal, confessional style, Tim Flannery takes us with him on his search for elusive critters in exotic places.” —The Courier-Mail (Australia)
“There is at least one line on every page of this remarkable book that prompts the reader to stop dead, and demand a repeat…. Who knew almost anything that is revealed in these fascinating, absorbing tales—about animals utterly unfamiliar, places utterly unknown, peoples generally unfavoured? Seldom have I been so captivated by a book.” —Simon Winchester, The Globe and Mail
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Among the Islands
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