Tasmanian Tiger: The Tragic Tale of How the World Lost Its Most Mysterious Predator

by David Owen

Book Overview

Once the world's largest marsupial predator, the doglike Tasmanian tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) ranged across Australia and as far north as New Guinea. After humans introduced dingoes to the area... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801879523
• ISBN13: 9780801879524
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent science journalism

When you visit Tasmania, you'll see plenty of tourist gifts featuring the Tassie Tiger - but behind the trinkets lies a tragic tale of extinction. And then when you drive through mountainous valleys, shrouded in mist and rain, full of trees hundreds of years old, you might even believe the Tiger is still out, hiding from its human nemesis. This book is well written, beautifully printed and worth the investment.

Helpful and well done. A great resource on Thylacines.

Tasmanian Tiger: The Tragic Tale of How the World Lost Its Most Mysterious Predator by David Owen is a very good book with lots of helpful information. Well written and engaging.

Everything I was looking for

If you are like me and have always wondered what happened to these fascinating mammals, then get this is a book for you. It covers everything, but in a readable approach. I particularly like the way it introduces you to the tasmanian residents, new and old. Losing the tassie tiger was a great blow to conservation, but I still hear howls in the background of history.

Gone the way of the dodo

David Owen's "Tasmanian Tiger..." is a little gem that will delight the naturalist, the environmentalist, and just the intelligent reader. It is a poignant tale about an animal that became extinct in relatively recent times, gone the way of the dodo. The book is written unusually well by an impassioned nature-writer, and it is capable of evoking frustration and sadness by the insensitivity of man toward preserving the balance of nature. It is entertaining and richly illuminating about this strange animal, and also about a land as obscure and inaccessible as any spot on earth. I would recommend this book with unrestrained enthusiasm.