Urban Antics: Tales of an urban naturalist
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A Naturalist's Eye on Suburban Perth
John Hunter spent nearly five decades working with Western Australia's National Parks and Wildlife Service, and grew up in Perth's suburbs during the 1940s and 1950s. Urban Antics collects his true stories from that world, observations of nature and suburban life from a time when childhood curiosity in the backyard and the local bush block still had room to roam.
Written with warmth and irreverent humour, ...
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A Naturalist's Eye on Suburban Perth
John Hunter spent nearly five decades working with Western Australia's National Parks and Wildlife Service, and grew up in Perth's suburbs during the 1940s and 1950s. Urban Antics collects his true stories from that world, observations of nature and suburban life from a time when childhood curiosity in the backyard and the local bush block still had room to roam.
Written with warmth and irreverent humour, it will appeal to readers interested in natural history, Western Australian social history, or simply a good yarn about growing up close to nature.
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