Those wild rabbits : how they shaped Australia / Bruce Munday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munday, Bruce, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rabbits--Australia--History.

Rabbits.

Rabbits--Control--Australia--History.

Agricultural pests--Control--Australia.

Agricultural pests.

Agricultural pests--Control.

Rabbits--Control.

Australia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 273 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mile End, S.A. : Wakefield Press, 2017.

Summary:

A century ago Australia was home to 10 billion rabbits, thriving in their adopted home. Storyteller Bruce Munday finds the rabbit saga irresistible - the naive hopes of the early settlers, the frustration, environmental damage, cost to agriculture, dreams shattered, and the lessons learned and ignored. Those Wild Rabbits highlights not only the damage done but also Australia's missed opportunities for real rabbit control. It recognises the bush's paradoxical love affair with an animal that was at one time a significant rural industry and is still recalled with nostalgia. More importantly, it offers hope for a brighter future, making the case for continued research to drive the next rabbit-control miracle, because rabbit plagues of the past will become the future unless we capture the history and embrace the lessons.

Contents:

Forward

Preface

1. Why invite a pest?

2. To begin at the beginning

3. So, to Barwon Park

4. A brave new venture

5. Trench warfare

6. No more rabbits

it's against the law

7. Just kill them

8. In a parallel universe

9. Germ warfare

the magic bullet

10. Living under occupation

11. Rabbits as business

12. Rabbit as saviour

13. Big wars, big weapons

14. One shiny silver bullet?

15. The empire strikes back

16. Calici

easier to spell than haemorrhagic

17. Life and death after Wardang

18. Is war ever worth it?

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781743054574

1743054572

OCLC:

973874139

Publisher Number:

99995337629