<div>The #1 international bestseller on climate change that&rsquo;s been endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers, and energy executives around the world. Tim Flannery&rsquo;s The Weather Makers contributed in bringing the topic of global warming to worldwide prominence. For the first time, a scientist provided an accessible and comprehensive account of the history, current status, and future impact of climate change, writing what has been acclaimed by reviewers everywhere as the definitive book on global warming. With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels of greenhouse gases that will accumulate in the next few decades, we are reaching a global climatic tipping point. The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Originally somewhat of a global warming skeptic, Tim Flannery spent several years researching the topic and offers a connect-the-dots approach for a reading public who has received patchy or misleading information on the subject. Pulling on his expertise as a scientist to discuss climate change from a historical perspective, Flannery also explains how climate change is interconnected across the planet. This edition includes a new afterword by the author. &ldquo;An authoritative, scientifically accurate book on global warming that sparkles with life, clarity, and intelligence.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post</div>

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The Weather Makers

<div>A forceful call to climate change action and a pragmatic roadmap toward sustainability from the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers. Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available, Tim Flannery offers a guided tour of the environmental challenges we face and their potential solutions in both the big picture and in specific detail. He explores everything from techniques for storing the carbon that dead plants release into the earth to the fragile balancing act between energy demands and food supply in India and China, from carbon-trading schemes in South America to a collaboration between a Danish wind-energy company and an automobile manufacturer that may produce a viable electric car and end the reign of big oil. Now or Never is a powerful, thought-provoking, and essential book about the most urgent issue of our time. It burns with Flannery&rsquo;s characteristic mix of passion, scientific precision, and &ldquo;offhand interdisciplinary brilliance&rdquo; (Entertainment Weekly). &ldquo;Shocking . . . [Flannery] writes for a general audience with passion and clarity.&rdquo; &mdash;Jim Hansen</div>

Now or Never

<div>The international bestselling true story of an eighteenth-century sailor&rsquo;s extraordinary voyages, compiled by the celebrated scientist and historian. In his many voyages, the Scottish-born sailor John Nicol twice circumnavigated the globe, visiting every inhabited continent while witnessing and participating in many of the greatest events of exploration and adventure in the eighteenth century. He traded with Native Americans on the St. Lawrence River and hunted whales in the Arctic Ocean. He fought for the British navy against American privateers in the Atlantic Ocean and Napol&eacute;on&rsquo;s navy in the Mediterranean Sea. En route to Australia he met the love of his life, Sarah Whitlam, a convict bound for the Botany Bay prison colony, who bore his son before duty forced them apart forever. At the end of his journeys, John Nicol returned to his homeland and a life of obscurity and poverty, until the publisher John Howell met him one day while he was wandering the streets of Edinburgh, searching for dregs of coal to fuel his hearth. After hearing the fascinating stories of Nicol&rsquo;s seafaring experiences, Howell convinced him to write his memoirs&mdash;the publication of which eventually earned Nicol enough money to live comfortably for the rest of his days. Tim Flannery has edited Nicol&rsquo;s original text, providing accompanying footnotes and an introduction (updated for this North American edition) that give historical context to the sailor&rsquo;s exploits. &ldquo;Lively . . . Exciting . . . Nicol has made a lasting place for himself in the literature of the sea and the ships he loved so deeply.&rdquo; &mdash;Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post</div>

The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner

<div>The author of the #1 international bestseller, The Weather Makers, provides a stunning portrait of Australia&rsquo;s cultural capital. Sydney, Australia, is one of the world&rsquo;s most beautiful and fascinating cities, home to over five million people and a popular tourist destination. In The Birth of Sydney, scientist and historian Tim Flannery blends the writings of Australian explorers, settlers, leaders, journalists, and visitors to construct a compelling narrative history of the great metropolis&mdash;from its founding as a remote penal colony of the British Empire in 1788 to its emergence as a vital trading power in the nineteenth century. Together, their voices and experiences create an unforgettable panoramic portrait of the early life of the majestic harbor city.</div>

The Birth of Sydney

<div>From the bestselling author of The Weather Makers: &ldquo;An enthralling introduction to the mountain people of New Guinea . . . and to their magnificent land&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). A world expert on the fauna of New Guinea with twenty new species and over seven books to his credit, Tim Flannery takes us into the field and on an unforgettable journey into the heart of this mysterious and uncharted country. Flannery&rsquo;s scientific voyage leads him to places he never dreamed of: he camps among cannibals and befriends Femsep, a legendary warrior who led the slaughter of colonial whites decades before. He enters caves full of skeletons of long-extinct, giant marsupials, scales mountains previously untouched by Europeans, and is nearly killed when tribes people decide to take revenge for their prior mistreatment by his &ldquo;clan&rdquo; (wildlife scientists). And Flannery writes movingly of the fate of indigenous people in collision with the high-tech world of late-twentieth-century industry. In New Guinea Pidgin, &ldquo;throwim way leg&rdquo; means to thrust out your leg on the first step of a long journey. Full of adventure, wit, and natural wonders, Flannery&rsquo;s narrative is just such a spectacular trip. Like Redmond O&rsquo;Hanlon&rsquo;s classics Into the Heart of Borneo and No Mercy, Throwim Way Leg is a tour de force of travel, anthropology, and natural history. &ldquo;Flannery combines diligent science, heart-pounding adventure, and a respect for ancient cultures to create a compelling tale.&rdquo; &mdash;Sierra, The National Magazine of the Sierra Club</div>

Throwim Way Leg

<div>The internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers crafts a love letter to his native land and one of its most unique inhabitants: the kangaroo. Drawing on three decades of travel, research, and field work, Tim Flannery shows us how the destiny of the extraordinary kangaroo is inseparable from the environment that created it. Along the way he uses encounters with ancient aboriginal cultures, eccentric fossil hunters, farmers, scientists, kangaroo advocates, and kangaroo hunters, to explore how Australia&rsquo;s deserts and rain forests have shaped human responses to the continent&mdash;and how kangaroos have evolved to handle the resulting challenges. Ultimately, Chasing Kangaroos is a captivating blend of memoir, travel, natural history, and evolutionary science&mdash;and further proof of Flannery&rsquo;s &ldquo;offhand interdisciplinary brilliance&rdquo; (Entertainment Weekly). &ldquo;Absorbing, funny, and wonderfully learned.&rdquo; &mdash;Bill Bryson, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods</div>

Chasing Kangaroos

<div>The author of the #1 bestseller, The Weather Makers, pens &ldquo;a brilliant examination of where we are with climate change and where we might be able to go&rdquo; (The National Observer, Vancouver). Almost two decades ago, Tim Flannery&rsquo;s #1 international bestseller, The Weather Makers, was one of the first books to break the topic of climate change out into the general conversation. Today, Earth&rsquo;s climate system is fast approaching a crisis. Political leadership has not kept up, and public engagement with the issue of climate change has declined. Opinion is divided between technological optimists and pessimists who feel that catastrophe is inevitable. Around the world people are now living with the consequences of an altered climate&mdash;with intensified and more frequent storms, wildfires, droughts, and floods. For some it&rsquo;s already a question of survival. Drawing on the latest science, Flannery gives a snapshot of the trouble we are in and more crucially, proposes a new way forward, including rapidly progressing clean technologies and a &ldquo;third way&rdquo; of soft geo-engineering. Tim Flannery, with his inimitable style, makes this urgent issue compelling and accessible. This is a must-read for anyone interested in our global future. &ldquo;What Flannery provides&mdash;a convincing defense for the position that a path to averting catastrophic climate change still exists&mdash;is invaluable.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Review of Books</div>

Atmosphere of Hope

<div>From the internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer, and conservationist comes an awe-inspiring account of earth&rsquo;s evolution. Beginning at the moment of creation with the Big Bang, Here on Earth explores the evolution of Earth from a galactic cloud of dust and gas to a planet with a metallic core and early signs of life within a billion years of being created. In a compelling narrative, Flannery describes the formation of the Earth&rsquo;s crust and atmosphere, as well as the transformation of the planet&rsquo;s oceans from toxic brews of metals (such as iron, copper, and lead) to life-sustaining bodies covering seventy percent of the planet&rsquo;s surface. Life, Flannery shows, first appeared in these oceans in the form of microscopic plants and bacteria, and these metals served as catalysts for the earliest biological processes known to exist. From this starting point, Flannery tells the fascinating story of the evolution of our own species, exploring several early human species&mdash;from the diminutive creatures (the famed hobbits) who lived in Africa around two million years ago to Homo erectus&mdash;before turning his attention to Homo sapiens. Drawing on Charles Darwin&rsquo;s and Alfred Russel Wallace&rsquo;s theories of evolution and Lovelock&rsquo;s Gaia hypothesis, Here on Earth is a dazzling account of life on our planet. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll discover why Tim Flannery&rsquo;s books have made him the rock star of modern science.&rdquo; &mdash;Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel</div>

Here on Earth

<div>An invaluable collection of think pieces from a climate change expert and the author of the #1 international bestseller The Weather Makers. Tim Flannery is one of the world&rsquo;s most influential scientists, a foremost expert on climate change credited with discovering more species than Charles Darwin. But Flannery didn&rsquo;t come to his knowledge overnight. With its selection of exhilarating essays and articles written over the past twenty-five years, An Explorer&rsquo;s Notebook charts the evolution of a young scientist doing fieldwork in remote locations to the major thinker who has changed the way we think about global warming. In over thirty pieces, Flannery writes about his journeys in the jungles of New Guinea and Indonesia, about the extraordinary people he met and the species he discovered. He writes about matters as wide-ranging as love, insects, population, water, and the stresses we put on the environment. He shows us how we can better predict our future by understanding the profound history of life on Earth. And he chronicles the seismic shift in the world&rsquo;s attitude toward climate change. An Explorer&rsquo;s Notebook is classic Flannery&mdash;wide-ranging, eye-opening science, conveyed with richly detailed storytelling. &ldquo;Tim Flannery is in the league of all-time great explorers like Dr. David Livingstone.&rdquo; &mdash;Sir David Attenborough</div>

An Explorer's Notebook

<div>From the authors of A Gap in Nature, a breathtaking visual adventure showcasing ninety of the world&rsquo;s most astounding creatures. Sumptuous birds of paradise, amazing soft-shell turtles, frogs that look like tomatoes, and terrifying fish (including the deep-water angler fish from Finding Nemo) are just some of the extraordinary creatures that can be found in Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten&rsquo;s new book, Astonishing Animals. Superbly illustrated with lifelike full-color paintings, Astonishing Animals details ninety of the world&rsquo;s most amazing animals from around the world. In this book you will find the hairy seadevil; the spectacular Sulawesi naked bat; and in the depths of the limestone caves in Slovenia, the olm, a pink, four-legged, sightless salamander that lives for a hundred years. In fascinating vignettes, Flannery offers the true evolutionary tale of how each of these bizarre creatures came to look the way they do. Alongside each historical account is a stunning hand-painted color reproduction (life-size in the original painting) by Schouten. Filled with purple-faced apes, jagged-toothed dolphins, and antlered lizards, Astonishing Animals is a remarkable collection of the world&rsquo;s most incredible creatures and the stories behind their remarkable survival into a modern age. &ldquo;An elegant paean to some of the world&rsquo;s strangest and/or most beautiful creatures.&rdquo; &mdash;Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times &ldquo;As beautiful as it is fascinating, this book will be relished by animal lovers of all stripes.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review</div>

Astonishing Animals

<div>A comprehensive history of the continent, &ldquo;full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America&rsquo;s geology, climate, and paleontology&rdquo; (The Washington Post Book World). Here, &ldquo;the rock star of modern science&rdquo; tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago to the present day (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel). Flannery describes the development of North America&rsquo;s deciduous forests and other flora, and tracks the migrations of various animals to and from Europe, Asia, and South America, showing how plant and animal species have either adapted or become extinct. The story spans the massive changes wrought by the ice ages and the coming of the Native Americans. It continues right up to the present, covering the deforestation of the Northeast, the decimation of the buffalo, and other consequences of frontier settlement and the industrial development of the United States. This is science writing at its very best&mdash;both an engrossing narrative and a scholarly trove of information that &ldquo;will forever change your perspective on the North American continent&rdquo; (The New York Review of Books).</div>

The Eternal Frontier

<div>With this awe-inspiring account of earth&rsquo;s evolution, &ldquo;you&rsquo;ll discover why Tim Flannery&rsquo;s books have made him the rock star of modern science&rdquo; (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel). Beginning at the Big Bang, Here on Earth explores the evolution of Earth from a galactic cloud of dust and gas to a planet with a metallic core and early signs of life within a billion years of being created. In a compelling narrative, internationally-acclaimed scientist, explorer, conservationist, and &ldquo;crackerjack storyteller&rdquo; Tim Flannery describes the formation of the Earth&rsquo;s crust and atmosphere, as well as the transformation of the planet&rsquo;s oceans from toxic brews of metals to life-sustaining bodies covering seventy percent of the planet&rsquo;s surface&mdash;which first appeared as ocean-born microscopic plants and bacteria with the metal brew serving as a catalyst for the earliest biological processes known to exist (Publishers Weekly). From this beginning of life on Earth, Flannery tells the fascinating story of the evolution of humanity, exploring several early human species&mdash;from the diminutive creatures proclaimed as &ldquo;hobbits&rdquo; who lived in Africa around two million years ago to Homo erectus&mdash;before turning his attention to Homo sapiens. Drawing on Charles Darwin&rsquo;s and Alfred Russell Wallace&rsquo;s theories of evolution and Lovelock&rsquo;s Gaia hypothesis, Here on Earth is &ldquo;an educational project worthy of Flannery&rsquo;s great talents&rdquo; (TheGuardian).</div>

<div>A story of science and discovery that&rsquo;s &ldquo;part travel diary and part field notebook . . . like what you&rsquo;d get if Charles Darwin starred in an Indiana Jones flick&rdquo; (Audubon Magazine). Credited with discovering more species than Charles Darwin, Tim Flannery has been hailed as &ldquo;the rock star of modern science.&rdquo; Here, he recounts a series of expeditions he made early in his career to the islands of the South Pacific, a great arc stretching nearly 4,000 miles from the postcard perfection of Polynesia to some of the largest, highest, and most rugged islands on earth (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel). Originally traveling in search of rare and undiscovered mammal species, Flannery found much more: fascinating places where local taboos, foul weather, dense jungle, and sheer remoteness made for dramatic exploration; strange creatures such as monkey faced bats, giant rats, gazelle-faced black wallabies; and human cultures far removed from our own. This &ldquo;rollicking good adventure-science read&rdquo; is a must-have for anyone who has ever imagined voyaging to the ends of the earth to uncover and study the rare and the wonderful (Audubon Magazine).</div>

Among the Islands

<div>A tale of cave bears and comet strikes and a hundred million years of history by the bestselling author of Here on Earth: &ldquo;Marvelous.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review) In Europe: A Natural History, world-renowned scientist, explorer, and conservationist Tim Flannery applies the eloquent interdisciplinary approach he used in his ecological histories of Australia and North America to the story of Europe. He begins 100 million years ago, when the continents of Asia, North America, and Africa interacted to create an island archipelago that would later become the Europe we know today. It was on these ancient tropical lands that the first distinctly European organisms evolved. Flannery teaches us about Europe&rsquo;s midwife toad, which has endured since the continent&rsquo;s beginning, while elephants, crocodiles, and giant sharks have come and gone. He explores the monumental changes wrought by the devastating comet strike and shows how rapid atmospheric shifts transformed the European archipelago into a single landmass during the Eocene. As the story moves through millions of years of evolutionary history, Flannery eventually turns to our own species, describing the immense impact humans had on the continent&rsquo;s flora and fauna&mdash;within 30,000 years of our arrival in Europe, the woolly rhino, the cave bear, and the giant elk, among others, would disappear completely. The story continues right up to the present, as Flannery describes Europe&rsquo;s leading role in wildlife restoration, and then looks ahead to ponder the continent&rsquo;s future: with advancements in gene editing technology, European scientists are working to recreate some of the continent&rsquo;s lost creatures, such as the great ox of Europe&rsquo;s primeval forests and even the woolly mammoth.</div>

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Books By Tim Flannery (14 Books)

The Weather Makers

Now or Never

The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner

The Birth of Sydney

Throwim Way Leg

Chasing Kangaroos

Atmosphere of Hope

Here on Earth

An Explorer's Notebook

Astonishing Animals

The Eternal Frontier

Here on Earth

Among the Islands

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