The reef : a passionate history /: a passionate history. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Iain McCalman.
• Authors: McCalman, Iain
• Contents: Prologue : A country of the mind -- Labyrinth : Captain Cook's entrapment -- Barrier : Matthew Flinders's dilemma -- Cage : Eliza Fraser's hack writer -- Bastion : Joseph Jukes's epiphanies -- Hearth : Barbara Thompson, the ghost maiden -- Heartlands : the lost lives of Karkynjib and Anco -- Refuge : William Kent escapes his past -- Paradise : Ted Banfield's island retreat -- Obsession : the quest to prove the origins of the reef -- Symbiosis : Cambridge dons on a coral cay -- War : a poet, a forester, and an artist join forces -- Extinction : Charlie Veron, Darwin of the coral -- Epilogue : A country of the heart.
• Publisher Details: New York : Scientific American Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 994.3; Natural history -- Australia -- Great Barrier Reef (Qld.); HISTORY -- Oceania; SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology -- Marine Biology; Natural history; Great Barrier Reef (Qld.) -- History; Queensland -- Great Barrier Reef; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1922072923; 9781922072924; 9780374711702; 0374711704
• Related ISBNs: 9780374248192; 0374248192
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.