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Original Title:	Kangaroo Dreaming: An Australian Wildlife Odyssey
ISBN:	0609607960 (ISBN13: 9780609607961)
Edition Language:	English

Kangaroo Dreaming: An Australian Wildlife Odyssey

Edward Kanze

Hardcover | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 39 Users | 7 Reviews

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Title	:	Kangaroo Dreaming: An Australian Wildlife Odyssey
Author	:	Edward Kanze
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	September 12th 2000 by Sierra Club Books (first published September 2000)
Categories	:	Travel. Cultural. Australia. Environment. Nature. Nonfiction

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This is the sort of book you keep to read a few pages of while the kettle boils, or the website loads or the bath fills with water. A couple of pages of reading about driving the entire way around Australia (avoiding the cities wherever possible) and listing every single animal the author and his wife come across - and those that they don't see as well is about all I could take at a sitting.

However, the book has charm. I'm not sure where that charm resides, but I didn't give the book up and now I know if I go to Australia, which I would like to, that I shouldn't bother driving around the perimeter of the island-continent and criss-crossing the mountains and deserts because unless you are a list-keeping naturalist, its a trip that definitely sounds like it lacks charm and is composed of hours, days of extreme boredom where you see nothing. I did that once, 27 hours in the Turkish steppes. Ended up counting telegraph poles! Really.

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Ratings: 3.82 From 39 Users | 7 Reviews

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To put it simply, this book was boring, not wanting to diminish Debbie and Ed Kanze's wonderful and special circumnavigate exploration of Australia. I would have stopped reading this book about 50 pages in if it wasn't for my love and fondness of Australia. If I were a bird lover I would have loved this book wholeheartedly. The author and his wife see over 400 species of birds on their trip and I think Kanze must mention and/or describe more than half of them. With this book totaling 300 and

I read this book just after having finished Bill Bryson's travel book on Australia, "In A Sunburned Country," and the contrast could not be more vivid. Bryson focused mainly on the cities, towns, and people of Australia, and I believe he only saw a few kangaroos in his entire sojourn there. Though he did cover some natural history, most of his work was focused on the human history and culture of Australia. Kanze on the other hand on his massive journey around Australia with his wife Debbie spentThis is the sort of book you keep to read a few pages of while the kettle boils, or the website loads or the bath fills with water. A couple of pages of reading about driving the entire way around Australia (avoiding the cities wherever possible) and listing every single animal the author and his wife come across - and those that they don't see as well is about all I could take at a sitting. However, the book has charm. I'm not sure where that charm resides, but I didn't give the book up and now



I really wanted to give this book a higher rating because I did enjoy a lot of the interesting information presented about the natural history of the country. However, all the parallels of their travels with Homer and the Odyssey and the amount of time spent on the comparisons got to feel totally contrived. Also I'm not sure I can believe that Ed and Debbie were able to score sightings of almost every rare plant/animal they searched for. Also, how did they manage to have so many personal

The author and his wife see over 400 different birds on their journey around the continent of Australia, and each one is detailed in this book. Sound boring? It's not. This book is a great guide to travel across Australia. Not in the "eat here, sleep there, and don't forget to see this sight!", Lonely Planet-type of guide, but in the sense that it tells you what exactly it was like to travel through it. That does include a fair amount of info about Australian wildlife, but written in a totally

I had huge hopes for this book (written by a "sometimes" park ranger, drove most of the route that I did, a birdwatcher), but was hugely disappointed. The author comes off as douche, talking about the poor city folk who did not travel or enjoy Australia as they did. Although there were definatly some very interesting natural history stories and notes, the entire book read like a "I saw" list. Really, listing off the birds you saw is boring. And I'm a bird nerd. I think that the crux of the

This is the sort of book you keep to read a few pages of while the kettle boils, or the website loads or the bath fills with water. A couple of pages of reading about driving the entire way around Australia (avoiding the cities wherever possible) and listing every single animal the author and his wife come across - and those that they don't see as well is about all I could take at a sitting. However, the book has charm. I'm not sure where that charm resides, but I didn't give the book up and now