Tooth and Nail

preview-18
  • Tooth and Nail Book Detail

  • Author : Brian Coman
  • Release Date : 2010-03-01
  • Publisher : Text Publishing
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 265
  • ISBN 13 : 1921656387
  • File Size : 35,35 MB

Tooth and Nail by Brian Coman PDF Summary

Book Description: When the First Fleet arrived at Sydney Cove in 1788, its cargo included a small number of rabbits. A hundred years later rabbits had colonised vast areas of the continent, bringing irreversible change to the country's ecology. Tooth and Nail is a beautifully written and wonderfully entertaining history about human reactions to the rabbit. A survivor of drought, fire, flood, diseases, predators and poisons, this small and rather attractive creature has irrevocably transformed our environment and influenced social, political and cultural life in this country. Coman describes everything from nineteenth-century poisoning techniques to destroying rabbit warrens with explosives, from the many weird theories circulating as to how to destroy the rabbit to Louis Pasteur's attempts to infect Australian rabbits with chicken cholera. He tells the story of a Geelong grazier who was one of the first to bring rabbits to Australia. And the book charts the extraordinary postwar story of the battle against the rabbit, including the unprecedented impact of myxomatosis and rabbit haemorrhagic disease. Tooth and Nail is an indispensable history of how Europeans, through the introduction of a single species, changed Australia forever.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Tooth and Nail books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Tooth and Nail

Tooth and Nail

File Size : 30,30 MB
Total View : 9823 Views
DOWNLOAD

When the First Fleet arrived at Sydney Cove in 1788, its cargo included a small number of rabbits. A hundred years later rabbits had colonised vast areas of the

ISSUES ON WAR & PEACE

ISSUES ON WAR & PEACE

File Size : 67,67 MB
Total View : 8554 Views
DOWNLOAD

These proceedings carry some of the papers delivered at the 14th Biennial Labour History Conference, 11-13 February 2015. Titled Fighting Against War: Peace Act

The Last Battle

The Last Battle

File Size : 45,45 MB
Total View : 9804 Views
DOWNLOAD

When Australian soldiers returned from the First World War they were offered the chance to settle on 'land fit for heroes'. Promotional material painted a pictu

Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific

Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific

File Size : 36,36 MB
Total View : 9748 Views
DOWNLOAD

A fascinating study of the environmental history of Australia, New Zealand, and the islands of the Pacific, from the time of the dinosaurs to the present day. O