Tooth and Nail

The story of the rabbit in Australia

Brian Coman

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Text Publishing Company
01 March 2010

History; Zoology: Mammals; Pollution & threats to the environment; Pest control; Rabbits & rodents as pets

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When the First Fleet arrived at Sydney Cove in 1788, its cargo included a small number of rabbits. A hundred years later rabbits had colonised vast areas of the continent, bringing irreversible change to the country's ecology.

Tooth and Nail is a beautifully written and wonderfully entertaining history about human reactions to the rabbit. A survivor of drought, fire, flood, diseases, predators and poisons, this small and rather attractive creature has irrevocably transformed our environment and influenced social, political and cultural life in this country.

Coman describes everything from nineteenth-century poisoning techniques to destroying rabbit warrens with explosives, from the many weird theories circulating as to how to destroy the rabbit to Louis Pasteur's attempts to infect Australian rabbits with chicken cholera. He tells the story of a Geelong grazier who was one of the first to bring rabbits to Australia. And the book charts the extraordinary postwar story of the battle against the rabbit, including the unprecedented impact of myxomatosis and rabbit haemorrhagic disease.

Tooth and Nail is an indispensable history of how Europeans, through the introduction of a single species, changed Australia forever.

By: Brian Coman
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 202g
ISBN: 9781921656385
ISBN 10: 1921656387
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 01 March 2010
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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Tooth and Nail

The story of the rabbit in Australia

Brian Coman

$25.95

Paperback

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