Research Catalog

Title

Feral dilemma : the life of a ranger on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island / Michael Anderson.

Author

Anderson, Michael

Publication

• Hobart, Tasmania : Forty South Publishing Pty Ltd, [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Description

307 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), map; 24 cm.

Summary

This book is both the personal response of a ranger working to eliminate feral cats in a most challenging environment, and a philosophical probing into this "feral cat dilemma." The book immerses the reader in a world of sub-zero temperatures, gales, stink and struggle contrasted with the glory of an aurora or the majesty of an albatross. The narrative is immediate, raw and colourful, yet sometimes also lyrical. It is a marriage of science and poetry, told by a man who has fallen in love with a wild island.

Alternative Title

Life of a ranger on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island

Subject

• Macquarie Island Feral Cat Eradication Project (Tas.)
• Tasmania. Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment
• Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions
• Park rangers > Australia > Tasmania > Macquarie Island > Biography
• Natural history > Australia > Tasmania > Macquarie Island
• Nonindigenous pests > Control > Moral and ethical aspects > Australia > Tasmania > Macquarie Island
• Feral animals > Control > Australia > Tasmania > Macquarie Island
• Feral cats > Control > Australia > Tasmania > Macquarie Island
• Macquarie Island (Tas.) > History
• Macquarie Island Nature Reserve (Tas.) > Management

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Appendix 1. Ode to Macca : a midwinter poem -- Appendix 2. Salute to Macca cats.

ISBN

• 9780992551308 (pbk.)
• 0992551307 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 933232634
• SCSB-12681605

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library