Koala

A Historical Biography

This book surveys the Koala's fascinating history, its evolutionary survival in Australia for over 30 million years, it's strikingly adaptive physiognomy, its private life, and its strong cultural impact it had has through its rich fertilisation of Australian literature. The work also focuses on the complex problems of Australia's national wildlife and conservation policies and the challenges surroundings the environmental, economic and social questions concerning koala management.

'Koala' embraces the story of this famous marsupial in an engaging historical narrative, extensively illustrated from widely sourced pictorial material.