Books written by Tim Flannery

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  Chasing Kangaroos: A Continent, a Scientist, and a Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Creature

  Ultimately, Chasing Kangaroos is a captivating blend of memoir, travel, natural history, and evolutionary science—and further proof of Flannery’s “offhand interdisciplinary brilliance” (Entertainment Weekly). “Absorbing, funny, ...

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  Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope

  Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability.

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  Weird, Wild, Amazing!: Exploring the Incredible World of Animals

  Are zombie jellyfish real? Do seahorses have stomachs? What’s it like to wrestle a python? Tim Flannery has the answers.

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  Life: Selected Writings

  Essays, speeches and collective musings from one of Australia’s greatest minds. From climate change to art, books, and the environment, there is something here for every Flannery fan.

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  Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet

  From this starting point, Flannery tells the fascinating story of the evolution of our own species, exploring several early human species—from the diminutive creatures (the famed hobbits) who lived in Africa around two million years ago ...

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  We are the Weather Makers: The History of Climate Change

  Based on the author's best seller The Weather Makers, this accessible new edition speaks directly to young adults, offering a clear look at the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to ...

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  Quarterly Essay 9 Beautiful Lies: Population and Environment in Australia

  'This essay is written as a thundering no to the characteristic Australian assumption that 'She'll be right' ... This is a Quarterly Essay written in the passionate belief that we need a coherent policy on population .

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  Astonishing Animals: Extraordinary Creatures and the Fantastic Worlds They Inhabit

  Filled with purple-faced apes, jagged-toothed dolphins, and antlered lizards, Astonishing Animals is a remarkable collection of the world’s most incredible creatures and the stories behind their remarkable survival into a modern age. ...

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  Weird, Wild, Amazing! Sky: Exploring the Incredible World in the Clouds

  Internationally renowned author and scientist Tim Flannery takes readers to the skies to learn about the extraordinary animals that fly in them. Can owls swim? Do woodpeckers eat wood? Are vampire bats real? Tim Flannery has the answers.

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  Weird, Wild, Amazing!: Desert

  Are zombie ants real? How high can an armadillo jump? What's it like to wrestle a python? Tim Flannery has the answers.

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  A Warning from the Golden Toad

  Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North Pole, deserts to rainforests, Tim Flannery tells the story of the earth's climate, and how we have changed it.

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  The Weather Makers: How We Are Changing the Planet and What it Means for Life on Earth

  In this extraordinary book, Tim Flannery not only describes the problem of global warming and climate change, he suggests in detail how the world can act to solve it.

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  Quarterly Essay 31 Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia?

  Will humanity rise to the challenge? This landmark essay by Tim Flannery is about sustainability, our search for it in the twenty-first century, and the impact it might have on the environmental threats that confront us today.

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  The Explorers: Text Classics

  Tim was the 2007 Australian of the Year and the Head of the Australian Climate Commission from 2011-13. textpublishing.com.au 'The Explorers traces the face and searches for the heart of this extraordinarily varied continent which we do not ...

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  Deep Dive into Deep Sea: Exploring the Most Mysterious Levels of the Ocean

  Who is the giant squid’s mortal enemy? Can you see ghosts in the deep sea? What in the world is a headless chicken monster? Tim Flannery has the answers.

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  We Are the Weather Makers

  In this adaptation of his massive international bestseller The Weather Makers, now revised for teen readers, Tim Flannery argues passionately and eloquently for the urgent need to address the global crisis that is threatening our survival.

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  Now Or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia?

  Will humanity rise to the challenge? This landmark essay by Tim Flannery is about sustainability, our search for it in the twenty-first century, and the impact it might have on the environmental threats that confront us today.

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  The Life and Adventures of William Buckley: Text Classics

  ‘Flannery has done us a service first by reissuing the story of a fascinating adventure from 200 years ago, and then by setting these events in perspective with his lucid introduction.’ Canberra Times ‘At 2.00 pm on Sunday, 6 July ...

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  The Life and Adventures of William Buckley: Text Classics

  • The extraordinary survival story of William Buckley (1780-1856), ‘the wild white man’, edited and introduced by Tim Flannery • In 1803 convict William Buckley escaped from the first official settlement in Victoria, living with the ...

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  The Life And Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner

  Above all, this is a riveting memoir of an ordinary man's extraordinary life, told with an honesty and humility that is beguiling.