The Last Place You'd Look for a WallabyGlen Chilton returns with another scientific quest, this time to seek out species ill-advisedly introduced into foreign environments. Chilton visits Ireland to witness how rhododendrons, an ornamental plant that escaped a private garden, now threaten to choke out the last of the great oak forests of the United Kingdom. He escapes blood-thirsty midges and a murderous Hungarian architect while visiting a colony of forgotten Scottish wallabies; finds out how termites, brought in on packing crates after WWII, contributed to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans; dives with turtles in North Queensland; and dodges both crocodiles and big guns in the eucalyptus forests of Ethiopia. Along the way, Chilton never turns down the opportunity to share a few pints with eccentric locals, often finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. |
Contents
Introduction | 12 |
Universal Oysters | |
The Attack of the Killer Rhododendrons | |
The Last of the Mynas | |
Paradise Made to Order | |
The Perforation of New Orleans | |
Through a Great Undersea Tunnel | |
Duck Hunt at the OK Corral | |
If You Have Snails Blame the Romans | |
How Are You? RAHHUUURGGGH | |
Geothermal Heating and Diabolical Cliches | |
A Leap of Faith | |
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The Last Place You'd Look for a Wallaby: My Obsessive Quest to Seek Out ... Glen Chilton No preview available - 2015 |
The Last Place You'd Look for a Wallaby: My Obsessive Quest to Seek Out ... Glen Chilton No preview available - 2013 |
The Last Place You'd Look for a Wallaby: My Obsessive Quest to Seek Out ... Glen Chilton No preview available - 2013 |