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Country - Tim Flannery

Country is a panoramic tale of a scientist and a continent. From Arnhem Land to Tasmania, from the Nullarbor to the Daintree, Tim Flannery describes his own passionate encounters with the land and its people. As he digs deeper into our country's past, exploring its remarkable fauna, he pays homage to Australia's most distinctive animal - the kangaroo - and shows us how the destiny of this extraordinary creature parallels that of the environment which created it.

The kangaroo may seem as familiar as the eucalypt or the desert, a symbol on a road sign or the tail of a plane, but readers will never see our national emblem in the same way again.

In Country, his most thrilling and personal book yet, Tim Flannery writes a love letter to our great land, drawing on three decades of travel, research and field work to reveal the secrets of its unique nature.