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The Last Place You’d Look for a Wallaby : My Obsessive Quest to Seek out Alien Species
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2012
The Last Place You’d Look for a Wallaby : My Obsessive Quest to Seek out Alien Species
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'Glen Chilton, author of the rollicking Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour finalist The Curse of the Labrador Duck, returns with yet another quest, this time to seek out species ill-advisedly introduced into foreign environments.
Chilton visits Ireland to witness how rhododendrons, an ornamental plant that escaped a private garden, now threaten to choke out the last of the great oak forests of the United Kingdom. He escapes blood-thirsty midges and a murderous Hungarian architect while visiting a colony of forgotten Scottish wallabies; finds out how termites, brought in on packing crates after the Second World War, contributed to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans; dives with turtles in North Queensland; and dodges crocodiles and big guns in the eucalyptus forests of Ethiopia.
Along the way, Glen Chilton never turns down the opportunity to share a few pints with eccentric locals, often finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.' (Publisher's blurb)
Chilton visits Ireland to witness how rhododendrons, an ornamental plant that escaped a private garden, now threaten to choke out the last of the great oak forests of the United Kingdom. He escapes blood-thirsty midges and a murderous Hungarian architect while visiting a colony of forgotten Scottish wallabies; finds out how termites, brought in on packing crates after the Second World War, contributed to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans; dives with turtles in North Queensland; and dodges crocodiles and big guns in the eucalyptus forests of Ethiopia.
Along the way, Glen Chilton never turns down the opportunity to share a few pints with eccentric locals, often finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Dedication: To Dr. Lisa Chilton, whom I treasure more than my next breath.
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Works about this Work
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In Truth It's a Subtle Pursuit
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 May 2013; (p. 24-25)
— Review of The Last Place You’d Look for a Wallaby : My Obsessive Quest to Seek out Alien Species 2012 single work autobiography
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In Truth It's a Subtle Pursuit
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 May 2013; (p. 24-25)
— Review of The Last Place You’d Look for a Wallaby : My Obsessive Quest to Seek out Alien Species 2012 single work autobiography
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