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The Secret Life of Wombats
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With his usual brilliance, James Woodford, bestselling author of The Wollemi Pine, explores the wombat's bizarre evolutionary history and perilous future. But this book also tells the extraordinary story of Peter Nicholson, a schoolboy who, in the 1960s learned more about wombats than anyone before him.
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Now available in a new B-format edition, with an irresistible new cover, Woodford explores the wombat's bizarre evolutionary history and perilous future.
In 1960, when he was a fifteen-year-old schoolboy at Timbertop, Peter Nicholson began to investigate the secret world of wombats by crawling down their burrows and making friends with them. In this enthralling book, James Woodford, bestselling author of The Wollemi Pine, tells the extraordinary story of Nicholson's research and then sets off himself in pursuit of the elusive wombat.
He reveals the unusual history of its discovery, and tracks down scientists, rangers, farmers, and wildlife carers around the continent who are struggling to understand and save these ancient and enigmatic creatures.
In The Secret Life of Wombats, James Woodford explores the mysteries of one of the world's most intriguing marsupials and traces its evolution on the great island continent. This is popular science at its best — an irresistible subject in the hands of an irrepressible author.
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ISBN: 9781877008436
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 December 2002
Country: Australia
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Audience: Tertiary education
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Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 240
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