Carnivorous Nights (48 page)

LL
. 20–26.
These animals:
Hamilton-Arnold,
Letters and Papers of G.
P
. Harris
, pp. 92–93.

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. 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.

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. 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.

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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.

Bailey, Col.
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Sydney, Australia: HarperCollins, 2001.

Flannery, Timothy Fridtjof.
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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 University Press, 2000.

Quammen, David.
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions.
New York: Scribner, 1996.

Triggs, Barbara.
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South Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Watts, Dave.
Field Guide to Tasmanian Birds.
Sydney: New Holland Publishers, 1999.

Watts, Dave.
Tasmanian Mammals: A Field Guide.
Kettering, Tasmania: Peregrine Press, 2002.

Weidensaul, Scott.
The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species.
New York: North Point Press, 2002.

Woodford, James.
The Secret Life of Wombats.
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2001.

Flanagan, Richard.
Death of a River Guide.
New York: Grove Press, 1994.

Flanagan, Richard.
Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish.
New York: Grove Press, 2001.

Kneale, Matthew.
English Passengers.
New York: Anchor Books, 2000.

Leigh, Julia.
The Hunter.
Ringwood, Australia: Penguin, 1999.

The End of Extinction: Cloning the Tasmanian Tiger.
Discovery Communications, 2002.

Howling III: The Marsupials
, written and directed by Philippe Mora. Bancannia Pictures, 1987. [Comic horror flick featuring were-thylacines.]

Campbell, C. “The Thylacine Museum.”
www.naturalworlds.org/thylacine/
.

M
ARGARET
M
ITTELBACH
and M
ICHAEL
C
REWDSON
(right) regularly join forces for
The New York Times
and other publications, revealing nature in the strangest of places. Their previous book,
Wild New York
, uncovered the unsung natural wonders of the city that never sleeps. They live in Brooklyn, New York, and give frequent talks and lectures on nature.

A
LEXIS
R
OCKMAN
's artwork examines the history of how nature is portrayed and is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and London's Saatchi Collection. He and his work have been featured in
The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, Travel
+
Leisure, Discover
, and
Natural History.
He has also contributed artwork to several books including
Future Evolution
, by Peter Ward, a prediction of the future of the global ecosystem. He lives and works in New York and has traveled around the world experiencing the wild firsthand.

Text copyright © 2005 by Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson
Artwork copyright © 2005 by Alexis Rockman

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Villard Books,
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Random House, Inc., New York.

Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Villard Books, an
imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House,
Inc., in 2005.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mittelbach, Margaret.

Carnivorous nights: on the trail of the Tasmanian tiger/Margaret Mittelbach
and Michael Crewdson; artwork by Alexis Rockman.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

eISBN: 978-0-307-51683-1

1. Thylacine—Australia—Tasmania. 2. Natural history—Australia—
Tasmania. 3. Tasmania. I. Crewdson, Michael. II. Title.

QL737.M336M58 2005

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