Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds,
authors Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson take off with
renowned artist Alexis Rockman on a postmodern safari. Their
mission? Tracking down the elusive Tasmanian tiger. This
mysterious, striped predator was once the world's largest
carnivorous marsupial. It had a pouch like a kangaroo and a jaw
that opened impossibly wide to reveal terrifying choppers.
Tragically, this rare and powerful animal was hunted into
extinction in the early part of the twentieth century. Or was it?
Journeying first to the Australian mainland and then south to the
wild island of Tasmania, these young naturalists brave a series of
bizarre misadventures and uproarious wildlife encounters in their
obsessive search for the long-lost beast.
From an ancient cave featuring an aboriginal painting of the tiger
to a lab in Sydney where maverick scientists are trying to
resurrect the animal through cloning, this intrepid trio comes
face-to-face with blood-sucking land leeches and venomous bull
ants, a misbehaving wallaby who invades their motel room, and a
crew of flesh-eating, bone-crunching Tasmanian devils gorging on
roadkill.
They bond with trappers, bushwackers, and wildlife experts who
refuse to abandon the tiger hunt, despite the paucity of evidence.
Sifting through local myths, bar-room banter, and historical
accounts, these environmental detectives sweep readers into a world
where platypus' swim, kangaroos roam, and a large predator with a
pouch was-or perhaps still is-queen of the jungle.
Filled with Alexis Rockman's stunning drawings of flora and
fauna--made from soil, wombat scat, and the artist's own
blood-Carnivorous Nightsis a hip and hilarious account of an
unhinged safari, as well as a fascinating portrayal of a wildly
unique part of the world.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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