Humans first settled the isLands of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and New Guinea some sixty millennia ago, and as they had elsewhere across the globe, immediately began altering the environment by hunting and trapping animals and gathering fruits and vegetables.
In this illustrated iconoclastic Ecological history, acclaimed scientist and historian Tim Flannery follows the environment of the isLands through the age of dinosaurs to the age of mammals and the arrival of humanity on its.
Humans first settled the isLands of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and New Guinea some sixty millennia ago, and as they had elsewhere across the globe, immediately began altering the environment by hunting and trapping animals and gathering fruits and vegetables
