Free The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change by Iain McCalman

inspirations for; marriage of; symbiosis and
    Yonge, Mattie
    York Island
    Youlden, Henry
    Yurie
    Zoe Bay
    zoology, scope of
    zooplankton
    zooxanthellae

 
    ALSO BY IAIN M C CALMAN
    Darwin’s Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution
    The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason
    An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776–1832 (editor)
    Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795–1840

 
    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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    Copyright © 2013 by Iain McCalman
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    Originally published in 2013, in slightly different form, by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, Australia
    Published in the United States by Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    First American edition, 2014
    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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