By Brian Coman
Tooth and Nail is an vital heritage of ways Europeans, during the advent of a unmarried species, replaced Australia forever.
Tooth and Nail is a fantastically written and beautifully wonderful historical past approximately human reactions to the rabbit. A survivor of drought, hearth, flood, ailments, predators and poisons, this small and relatively appealing creature has irrevocably remodeled the environment and stimulated social, political and cultural existence during this country.
Coman describes every little thing from nineteenth-century poisoning suggestions to destroying rabbit warrens with explosives, from the various bizarre theories circulating as to find out how to ruin the rabbit to Louis Pasteur's makes an attempt to contaminate Australian rabbits with chook cholera. He tells the extreme postwar tale of the conflict opposed to the rabbit, together with the extraordinary impression of myxomatosis and rabbit haemorrhagic disease.
Brian Coman was once study scientist with the Victorian division of average assets for twenty-three years and is at the moment an Honorary affiliate in Humanities at l. a. Trobe collage, Bendigo. He has been a contributor to various booklet and magazine courses, and a suite of his essays, A free Canon, used to be released in 2007.
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'beautifully written and packed with anecdotes amassed over a lifetime', Tim Flannery, Sydney Morning Herald
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