John Gould's extinct & endangered mammals of Australia

Resource Information

The work John Gould's extinct & endangered mammals of Australia represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

John Gould's extinct & endangered mammals of Australia

Statement of responsibility

Fred Ford

Title variation

• John Gould's extinct and endangered mammals of Australia
• Extinct and endangered mammals of Australia

Creator

• Ford, Fred

Contributor

• National Library of Australia
• Gould, John, 1804-1881

Author

• Ford, Fred

Subject

• Kangaroos -- Australia -- Pictorial works
• Mammals -- Australia -- Pictorial works
• Mammals -- Conservation -- Australia
• Marsupials -- Australia -- Pictorial works
• Rare mammals -- Australia -- Identification
• Extinct mammals -- Australia -- Identification
• Gould, John, 1804-1881

Genre

• Pictorial works
• Identification

Language

eng

Summary

How poignant it is to look at some of Gould's beautiful images of our animals and know that some are no longer with us, and some are fighting for their lives? In this book, author Fred Ford compares Gould's world, and the world that the animals live in at that time, with the world today. John Gould's Extinct and Endangered Mammals of Australia includes 46 Australian mammal species that, today, are threatened or extinct and that were portrayed in the lavish colour plates in John Gould's 1863 publication, The Mammals of Australia. Accompanying the pictures are accounts of the animals as they lived in the relatively untouched Australia that John Gould knew, and evidence of the attitudes of European settlers towards the native fauna

Dewey number

599.0994

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits
• facsimiles

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography