FROM QUEENSLAND TO THE GREAT BARRIER REEF

by Noel Monkman ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1958

Although this book is subtitled A Naturalist's Adventures in Australia, the author, an Australian and a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, is not so much practicing naturalist as lecturer, writer, photographer and collector of animals from the 30-foot Australian man-eating crocodile to diatoms and corals. With his specially built caravan and trailer, his cameras and his wife Kitty, he has ranged Australia from south to north, fighting mosquitoes, trapping crocodiles, shooting pigs, photographing birds and ants, wasps and bees, and, with underwater camera and aqualung, exploring the multiple plant and animal life of the Great Barrier Reef. The undersea photographs here reproduced do not equal those of some other writers in the field but the photo-micrograph pictures of minute animal and plant life will fascinate amateur naturalists and may appeal to professionals; the narrative itself, marred at times by overwriting and sentimentality, should interest many armchair explorers who have never seen a coral reef. Not aimed at practicing biologists, these adventures should be an excellent outside text for students of biology and photography, appeal to readers interested in rare animals, travel and life ""down under"", and should find a place in school and college scientific libraries.

Pub Date: May 15, 1958

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Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1958

Categories: NONFICTION