The Future Eaters

An Ecological History of the Australian Lands and People

by Timothy Fridtjof Flannery

Reed Books, 1994, [First Edition], ISBN 0730104222, black and white photographic plates, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket contacted to cover (see photographs)

“The human history of Australasia is the story of people struggling to survive in lands they don’t understand.  Forty million years of physical isolation have produced a bizarre geology and climate.  Australia is a land of lizards and crocodiles.  In New Guinea kangaroos’ live in the treetops; and titanic birds known as moas roamed the Islands of New Zealand.  The first Australasians altered these lands in ways that we find inconceivable today.  The European impact is even more formidable.
This encounter of humans with their environment is the genesis of all human history, yet such a history has never before been told.  The Future Eaters is the story of how human cultures are shaped by the environment they find themselves in and the inevitable events that surround the invasion of a native land.”