Continent of Curiosities : A Journey through Australian Natural History (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements; Part I. Visions from the Old World - The Last Five Hundred Years: 1. Curious collections; 2. A beast named Su; 3. Local knowledge; Part II. Into the Forests - The Last 250,000 Years: 4. Water, water everywhere; 5. Forests of fire; 6. The mystery of the reappearing possums; Part III. From Fossils and Bones - The Last 250 Million Years: 7. The case of the missing mollusc; 8. Brainbox; 9. The ape case; Part IV. Visions of the New Worlds - The Last Four and a Half Billion Years: 10. Lines in the sea; 11. Shifting continents; 12. Is there life on Mars?; References and further reading.