The Last Place You'd Look for a Wallaby
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The Last Place You'd Look for a Wallaby

My Obsessive Quest to Seek out Alien Species

  1. 295 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Last Place You'd Look for a Wallaby

My Obsessive Quest to Seek out Alien Species

About this book

Glen Chilton returns with another scientific quest, this time to seek out species ill-advisedly introduced into foreign environments. Chilton visits Ireland to witness how rhododendrons, an ornamental plant that escaped a private garden, now threaten to choke out the last of the great oak forests of the United Kingdom. He escapes blood-thirsty midges and a murderous Hungarian architect while visiting a colony of forgotten Scottish wallabies; finds out how termites, brought in on packing crates after WWII, contributed to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans; dives with turtles in North Queensland; and dodges both crocodiles and big guns in the eucalyptus forests of Ethiopia. Along the way, Chilton never turns down the opportunity to share a few pints with eccentric locals, often finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Author biography
  3. Title page
  4. Dedication and Copyright page
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. CHAPTER ONE – The Last Place You’d Look for a Wallaby
  8. CHAPTER TWO – Universal Oysters
  9. CHAPTER THREE – The Attack of the Killer Rhododendrons
  10. CHAPTER FOUR – The Last of the Mynas
  11. CHAPTER FIVE – The Curse of the White Guys
  12. CHAPTER SIX – Paradise Made to Order
  13. CHAPTER SEVEN – If God Were a Frog
  14. CHAPTER EIGHT – The Perforation of New Orleans
  15. CHAPTER NINE – Through a Great Undersea Tunnel
  16. CHAPTER TEN – Duck Hunt at the OK Corral
  17. CHAPTER ELEVEN – If You Have Snails, Blame the Romans
  18. CHAPTER TWELVE – “How Are You? RAHHUUURGGGH!”
  19. CHAPTER THIRTEEN – Geothermal Heating and Diabolical Clichés
  20. CHAPTER FOURTEEN – A Leap of Faith
  21. Epilogue
  22. Acknowledgements