Fantasy or fact, truly believed or doubted or manufactured, big cat scares have for generations haunted south-eastern Australia. The notion that a big cat has escaped and is at loose, or that the thylacine survives, is exciting and we may wish it to be true; it seems just possible. An ancient landscape of crags and lava cones and endless forbidding bush plays with the mind and is a dramatic backdrop for folklore. Stories of stock kills and claims of paw-prints have some kind of foundation; rumours of 'beast' attacks feed a persistent mythology ...
By:
David Waldron, Simon Townsend Imprint: Australian Scholarly Publishing Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 12mm
Weight: 325g ISBN:9781921875830 ISBN 10: 1921875836 Publication Date:01 October 2012 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
