Full name: Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger

Authors: Margaret Mittelbach, Michael Crewdson Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Science, Travel, Animals, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780812967692 0812967690

Packing an off-kilter sense of humor and keen scientific minds, Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson, along with renowned artist Alexis Rockman, take off on a postmodern safari. Their mission? Tracking down the elusive Tasmanian tiger. Tragically, this mysterious, striped predator was hunted into extinction in the early part of the twentieth century. Or was it? Journeying first to the Australian mainland and then south to the wild island of Tasmania, these young naturalists brave a series of bizarre misadventures and uproarious wildlife encounters in their obsessive search for the long-lost beast. Filled with Rockman's stunning drawings of flora and fauna originally crafted from river mud, wombat scat, and even the artist's own blood, Carnivorous Nights is a hip and hilarious account of an unhinged safari, as well as a fascinating portrayal of a wildly unique part of the world. Carniverous Nights is: One of the New York Public Library's "25 Books to Remember from 2005" A New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age, 2006 selection Similar books: Tasmanian Tiger by David Owen The Dragon Behind the Glass by Emily Voigt From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez Death at SeaWorld by David Kirby American Buffalo by Steven Rinella Underland by Robert Macfarlane The Dinosaur Heresies by Robert T. Bakker The Living Great Lakes by Jerry Dennis Bayou Farewell by Mike Tidwell The Animal Dialogues by Craig Childs Four Fish by Paul Greenberg Fruitless Fall by Rowan Jacobsen The Once and Future World by J. B. MacKinnon A Gap in Nature by Tim Flannery One River by Wade Davis At the Water's Edge by Carl Zimmer The View from Lazy Point by Carl Safina Squid Empire by Danna Staaf