Venom : the heroic search for Australia's deadliest snake

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Label

Venom : the heroic search for Australia's deadliest snake

Title remainder

the heroic search for Australia's deadliest snake

Statement of responsibility

Brendan James Murray

Title variation

Venom

Title variation remainder

the heroic search for Australias deadliest snake

Creator

• trueMurray, Brendan J., (Brendan James)

Author

• trueMurray, Brendan J., (Brendan James)

Subject

• trueAustralian
• trueOxyuranus
• Guugu Yimithirr (Australian people) -- Mythology
• trueMythology, Aboriginal Australian
• trueAustralia -- Environmental conditions
• truePoisonous animals
• Oxyuranus -- Venom | Social aspects -- Australia
• truePoisonous snakes
• Snakebites -- Australia -- History
• trueAntivenins
• Antivenins -- History
• trueNature Writing -- Animal Studies
• trueAboriginal Australians
• Europeans -- Australia -- History
• trueSnakebites
• Poisonous snakes -- Venom | Social aspects -- Australia
• Europeans -- Australia
• trueRosendale, George
• trueEuropeans in Australia -- History

Genre

• trueNature Writing

Language

eng

Summary

“In the early years of the twentieth century, an awareness was growing among European Australians of an unexpected threat, one that seemed to the very embodiment of the dark, ominous power of the Australian bush. To the Indigenous people of the Guugu Yimithirr nation, its was nguman; to the whites it was the taipan, an eight foot lightning fast venomous snake whose bite meant certain death. Venom is an examination of European settlers? troubled and often antagonistic relationship with the land, seen through the lens of the desperate scramble for an antivenom, and highlighted by the story of George Rosendale, a taipan bit victim of the Guugu Yimithirr nation.”--Back cover

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

591.650994

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult