JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY
"This is a well-illustrated, attractive, and enjoyable book. The author clearly fell in love with Australia in his youth; he has spent some years working there, has travelled much of it, and photographed a good deal of it; a selection of his photographs complements a very readable text. The book is wisely titled 'A' natural history: its 10 chatpers provide 10 tastes of Australia, from European discovery and current economic geography, the 'Gondwana legacy', the 'First Australians', to chapters on botany, marine biology, terrestrial invertebrates, and the four popular divisions of vertebrates. This is a good introduction to Australian natural history for the biologist with absolutely no prior information on the topic. ...it's worth a read: Qantas should stock it in all U.S. departure lounges."
NATURE
"Tim M. Berra set out to explain how flora and fauna have been shaped by the isolation and aridity of the continent. The book is aimed at the interested visitor, incorporating a geography of Austarlia and useful information for the traveller."
