Tasmanian Devil
What is smelly and ferocious, screams like a banshee, is no bigger than a corgi, steals clothes and bedding to make a nest,yet kills sheep and attacks humans? The first comprehensive book on the Tasmanian devil,tells the amazing and remarkable story of an iconic marsupial mammal and the great variety of people who have loved, loathed and misunderstood it for centuries.
ISBN: 0 565 09202 2
Author: David Owen and David Pemberton
Tasmanian Devil |
£ 6.50 |
The Tasmanian devil is now facing sudden extinction in its last refuge on earth, the island of Tasmania. A deadly cancer, with no known cure, has wiped out half the species. Are humans to blame? Overturning the prevailing myth and prejudice, David Owen and David Pemberton take the reader on an amazing journey into the world of this complex, robust little marsupial which is now highly vulnerable.
Product information
Hardback with jacket, 135 x 203 mm, 240 pp, 8 pp of colour photographs, March 2006.
Published by the Natural History Museum
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