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P. 260, LL. 4–8. In some of the dampest ravines: Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, pp. 400–401.
P. 262, LL. 20–25. We know kangaroos: Barbara Hamilton-Arnold (ed.), Letters and Papers of G.P. Harris, 1803–1812: Deputy Surveyor-General of New South Wales at Sullivan Bay, Port Phillip and Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land (Sorento, Australia: Arden Press, 1994), p. 59. The letters of G. P. Harris are held in the Manuscript Collection of the British Library, London (Mss Add 41556 & 45157).
P. 263, LL. 3–4. the most beautiful: Hamilton-Arnold, Letters and Papers of G.P. Harris, p. 61.
LL. 14–15. This land is cursed: This quote is commonly attributed to
Dirk [Dirck] Hartog, a Dutch explorer and the first European to land in Australia.
LL. 20–24. “Black Swans ”: Hamilton-Arnold, Letters and Papers of G.P. Harris, p. 61.
LL. 28–35. The hills and sides: Hamilton-Arnold, Letters and Papers of G.P. Harris, p. 66.
P. 264, LL. 9–14. My dearest mother: Hamilton-Arnold, Letters and Papers of G.P. Harris, p. 72.
P. 265, LL. 16–22. I take the liberty: Hamilton-Arnold, Letters and Papers of G.P. Harris, p. 89.
LL. 31–34. “ That from which this description”: Hamilton-Arnold, Letters and Papers of G.P. Harris, p. 90.
P. 266, LL. 12–17. The history of this new: Hamilton-Arnold, Letters and Papers of G.P. Harris, pp. 90–92.
LL. 20–26. These animals: Hamilton-Arnold, Letters and Papers of G.P. Harris, pp. 92–93.
27. SeNatOR tHyLaCINe
P. 276, LL. 29–32. The Native Tigers: Eric Guiler and Philippe Godard, Tasmanian Tiger, A Lesson to Be Learnt (Perth, Western Australia: Abrolhos Publishing, 1998), p. 123. A photograph of the original 1885 petition is reproduced in Tasmanian Tiger.
P. 277, LL. 25–30. is extremely rare: T. Thomson Flynn, “The Mammalian Fauna of Tasmania,” Tasmania Handbook (British Association for the Advancement of Science, Australian Meeting, 1914), p. 53.
L. 31. “tall hunk of scholarship”: Errol Flynn, My Wicked, Wicked Ways (Cutchogue, New York: Buccaneer Books, 1978), p. 19.
P. 278, LL. 34–36. The river through the valley: Bob Brown, The Valley of the Giants (Hobart, Tasmania: Bob Brown, 2001), p. 26.
28. fLaILINg IN tHe styX
P. 283, LL. 8–10. Look up!: public sign posted by Forestry Tasmania. LL. 26–33. A single 70 meter: public sign posted by Forestry Tasmania.
P. 284, LL. 13–14. “You're the one that I want ”: lyrics from Grease soundtrack, words by John Farrar.
29. CRyptID
P. 297, LL. 16–17. a large hairy creature: Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark, Cryptozoology A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras, and Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature (New York: Fireside, 1999), p. 50.
SUGGESTED READING AND VIEWING
NONfICtION
Bailey, Col. Tiger Tales: Stories of the Tasmanian Tiger. Sydney, Australia: HarperCollins, 2001.
Flannery, Timothy Fridtjof. The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People. New York: George Braziller, 1995.
Guiler, Eric, and Philippe Godard. Tasmanian Tiger, A Lesson to Be Learnt. Perth, Western Australia: Abrolhos Publishing, 1998.
Hamilton-Arnold, Barbara (ed.). Letters and Papers of G.P. Harris, 1803–1812: Deputy Surveyor-General of New South Wales at Sullivan Bay, Port Phillip and Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land. Sorento, Australia: Arden Press, 1994.
Hay, Ashley. Gum. Potts Point, Australia: Duffy & Snellgrove, 2002.
Hughes, Robert. The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding. New York: Vintage Books, 1986.
Launceston Field Naturalists Club. A Guide to Flowers and Plants of Tasmania. Sydney: Reed New Holland, 2000.
Low, Tim. The New Nature: Winners and Losers in Wild Australia. Camberwell, Australia: Viking, 2002.
Low, Tim. Feral Future: The Untold Story of Australia's Exotic Invaders. University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Owen, David. Tasmanian Tiger: The Tragic Tale of How the World Lost Its Most Mysterious Predator. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Paddle, Robert. The Last Tasmanian Tiger: The History and Extinction of the Thylacine. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge