The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change (57 page)

Urdzanna

U.S. Geological Survey

Uutaalnganu-speaking people

Vanuatu

Vaughan, Thomas Wayland

Vereker, H. P. Foley

Veron, J. E. N. “Charlie”; background of; career choice of; corals and; Darwin and; diving by; on extinction; nickname of; publications of

Veron, Katie

Veron, Noni

Victoria

Virtue, George

Vivien Reef

volcanoes

Voyage to Terra Australis, A
(Flinders)

Wain, Barry

Wak

Walden
(Thoreau)

Walker, Jan

Walker, Kath

wallabies

Wallace, Alfred Russel

Wamalag

Wanthaala people: body modification by; male pursuits of; Pelletier adopted by; region of; seniority among; spirituality and; tools of

Ward, Charles Melbourne “Mel”

Warrior Reef

Washington

waves

weapons

Webb, Len passim; ACF and; background of; Busst and Wright and; ecology and; epiphany of

Wednesday Island

Weenie

Wells, John W.

Wemyss, Thomas

Wesley College

Westall, William

West Australian

Western Australia

Western Pacific Warm Pool

wet season

Whicher, Jonathan

White, Gilbert

White, Patrick

white-rumped wood swallow

Whitlam, Gough

Whitley, Gilbert

Whitsunday region

Wickham’s River

Wide Bay

Wide World Magazine

wilderness; fear of; human need for

Wildlife

Wildlife Preservation Society; journal of

Willie

Willmett, Thankful

Wilson

Wistaria Reef channel

Within the Barrier
(Banfield)

Women’s College

Wood, Noel

wood swallows

Woodworth, William “Little Billy”

woomera

World Heritage site designation

World War I

World War II

worms

WPSQ,
see
Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland

Wreck Reef

Wright, Judith passim; on Aborigines; ACF and; background of; Busst and Webb and; Ellison Reef and; WPSQ and; writings by

Yarrabah

Year on the Great Barrier Reef, A
(Yonge)

Yegillies

Yonge, Charles “Maurice”; background of; book by; economic biology and; findings of; inspirations for; marriage of; symbiosis and

Yonge, Mattie

York Island

Youlden, Henry

Yurie

Zoe Bay

zoology, scope of

zooplankton

zooxanthellae

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C
CALMAN

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A Note About the Author

Iain McCalman is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a historian, a social scientist, and an explorer. He is the author of
Darwin’s Armada
,
The Last Alchemist
, and
Radical Underworld
. He is a professor of history at the University of Sydney.

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Originally published in 2013, in slightly different form, by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, Australia

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An excerpt from
The Reef
originally appeared, in slightly different form, in
Scientific American
.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material: Lines from “The Builders,” from
Collected Poems
by Judith Wright, reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

Lines from “Australia 1970,” from
A Human Pattern: Selected Poems
by Judith Wright (ETT Imprint, Sydney, 2010), reprinted by permission of ETT Imprint.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McCalman, Iain.

     The reef: a passionate history: the Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to climate change / Iain McCalman. — First American edition.

          pages   cm

     Includes bibliographical references and index.

     ISBN 978-0-374-24819-2 (hardback)—ISBN 978-0-374-71170-2 (ebook)

    1.  Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)—History.   2.  Natural history—Australia—Great Barrier Reef (Qld.)   I.  Title.

DU280 . G68 M44 2014

994.3—dc23

2013040660

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