Tasmanian Tiger: The tragic story of the thylacine

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

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Is it still out there People claim to keep seeing it still.The world's largest marsupial predator once roamed the Australian mainland. Confined to Tasmania for thousands of years, it was deliberately hunted down by settlers through fear, ignorance and greed. But was it a savage sheep killer or a shy, fussy, nocturnal feeder Did the last tiger die in a Hobart zoo in 1936, or did a few survive in the wild And did it really drink its victims' blood


A number of Australian species have miraculously reappeared after being labelled as extinct. Perhaps the tiger is still with us. And if it's not, can it really be brought back by cloning and returned to the wild


'Sweeps us along with wonderful writing as we meet a truly incredible animal that became the centrepiece in an ecological tragedy. Anyone interested in nature and the conservation of the diversity of life should read this story.' -Professor John Seidensticker, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

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David Owen is the author of 19 fiction and nonfiction titles, including Tasmanian Deviland Shark: In peril in the sea. He is the Official Secretary of the Governor of Tasmania.

David Pemberton is a wildlife biologist and manager of the Save the Tasmanian Devil Program in Tasmania's Department of Natural Resources and Environment. He is co-editor of Saving the Tasmanian Devil, and co-author with David Owen of Tasmanian Devil.