Tag Archives: Tim Flannery

The Eternal Frontier

“A sweeping natural history of North America from its birth as a self-contained continent in the Cretaceous Era to its current precarious status as…

Chasing Kangaroos

“Australian scientist/conservationist/explorer Flannery (The Weather Makers, 2006, etc.) tells the remarkable story of underappreciated marsupials thriving Down Under. . . . Quite exhaustive, fired…

The Birth of Sydney

Atmosphere of Hope

A decade after his groundbreaking book The Weather Makers, Tim Flannery argues that Earth’s climate system is fast approaching a crisis but that there…

Among the Islands

“Among the Islands exemplifies the sort of writing that was once commonplace, when adventure meant contributing to our knowledge of the world. Absolutely fantastic…