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Carnivorous Nights, On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger

Carnivorous Nights, On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger

by Margaret Mittelbach  •  Michael Crewdson  •  Alexis Rockman (Illustrator)

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

In this comic adventure, two Brooklyn naturalists and an artist friend head to Tasmania in search of the probably long-extinct Tasmanian Tiger. It's an entertaining travelogue, interweaving Tasmania's history, landscapes, fauna and people. Mittelbach and Crewdson also wrote Wild New York, about the city's natural features. With illustrations by Alexis Rockman, whose work has appeared in the New Yorker.  (AUS164, $14.95)


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