Tooth and Nail : the Story of the Rabbit in Australia

__Tooth and Nail__ is an indispensable history of how Europeans, through the introduction of a single species, changed Australia forever. __Tooth and Nail__ is a beautifully written and wonderfully entertaining history about human reactions to the rabbit. A survivor of drought, fire, flood, diseases, predators and poisons, this small and rather attractive creature has irrevocably transformed our environment and influenced social, political and cultural life in this country. Coman describes everything from nineteenth-century poisoning techniques to destroying rabbit warrens with explosives, from the many weird theories circulating as to how to destroy the rabbit to Louis Pasteur's attempts to infect Australian rabbits with chicken cholera. He tells the extraordinary postwar story of the battle against the rabbit, including the unprecedented impact of myxomatosis and rabbit haemorrhagic disease. **Brian Coman** was research scientist with the Victorian Department of Natural Resources for twenty-three years and is currently an Honorary Associate in Humanities at La Trobe University, Bendigo. He has been a contributor to numerous book and journal publications, and a collection of his essays, __A Loose Canon__, was published in 2007. textpublishing.com.au 'Splendid...so deeply informed, so fair-minded and so well expressed.' Peter Ryan 'colourful, clever and richly entertaining...an engaging read', __Weekend Australian__ 'beautifully written and filled with anecdotes collected over a lifetime', Tim Flannery, __Sydney Morning Herald__ Tooth & Nail is a beautifully written and wonderfully entertaining history of the rabbit in Australia. A survivor of drought, fire, flood, diseases, predators and poisons, this small and rather attractive creature has irrevocably transformed our environment and influenced social, political and cultural life in this country Hugely entertaining and beautifully written, this book tells one of the essential Australian stories - how the rabbit irrevocably changed our environment and influenced social, political and cultural life in this century