The Last Tasmanian Tiger
Title | The Last Tasmanian Tiger PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Paddle |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2002-09-04 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 9780521531542 |
This insightful examination of the history and extinction of one of Australia's most enduring folkloric beasts--the thylacine, (or Tasmanian tiger)-- challenges conventional theories. It argues that rural politicians, ineffective political action by scientists, and a deeper intellectual prejudice about the inferiority of marsupials actually resulted in the extinction of this once proud species. Hb ISBN (2000):0-521-78219-8
Thylacine
Title | Thylacine PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Heath |
Publisher | Fontaine Press Pty Ltd |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2015-02-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1925209415 |
This book details how, in November 1993, during a holiday in northern Queensland, the author was first told by a witness to a Thylacine (Tasmanian Tiger), on Cape York Peninsula. It also details some of the many other Thylacine sightings on mainland Australia and in Tasmania that he has been told about up until 2014. The author wrote this book at the suggestion of an academic working at a Queensland university, after the author told the academic about some of the Thylacine sightings that he had been told about in Queensland.
The Dream of the Thylacine
Title | The Dream of the Thylacine PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Wild |
Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1742373836 |
This arresting and beautiful picture book from Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks is a shimmering encounter with the Tasmanian tiger, a lament for a lost species, and a compelling evocation of the place of animals in Nature.
Thylacine
Title | Thylacine PDF eBook |
Author | David Owen |
Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Extinct mammals |
ISBN | 1742694195 |
Once reviled, feared and slaughtered by government decree, the myth of the Tasmanian Tiger continues to grow. This book explores the tale of the animal which has become the centrepiece in an ecological tragedy.
Paper Tiger
Title | Paper Tiger PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Freeman |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2010-08-23 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9004186727 |
This book analyses 80 illustrations of the extinct Tasmanian ‘tiger’, paying attention to the messages they convey and the species’ history. It offers new understandings of human-animal relations and tells a chilling story of how misleading representations can be.
Thylacine
Title | Thylacine PDF eBook |
Author | Gareth Linnard |
Publisher | CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2023-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1486315542 |
Until the mid-20th century, the thylacine was the world’s largest carnivorous marsupial, and its disappearance has left many questions and contradictions. Alternately portrayed as a scourge and as a high value commodity, the thylacine’s ecology and behaviour were known only anecdotally. In recent years, its taxonomic position, ecology, behaviour and body size have all been re-examined scientifically, while advances in genetics have presented the potential for de-extinction. With 78 contributors, Thylacine: The History, Ecology and Loss of the Tasmanian Tiger presents an evidence-based profile of the thylacine, examining its ecology, evolution, encounters with humans, persecution, assumed extinction and its appearance in fiction. The final chapters explore the future for this iconic species – a symbol of extinction but also hope.
Thylacine Conspiracy
Title | Thylacine Conspiracy PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Cromer |
Publisher | Just My Best Publishing Company |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780972034487 |
The Dutchman turned his mind to his mission--find a rare tiger in the wilds of Thailand. He did not underestimate the difficulties facing him. Here, on this island, there had been many previous searches. SUs big advantage was that he knew the tiger was alive; his predecessors were sustained only by a belief that it might be.