A Scientist among the Sandstorms: Drought and the Discursive contexts of Francis Ratcliffe’s popular ecology

Flying Fox and Drifting Sand, British zoologist Francis Ratcliffe’s popular 1938 account of his ecological study of the problem of the fruit bat problem in Queensland and soil erosion in the arid pastoral areas of South Australia, is a prominent instance of an influential form of cultural critique i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russell, Arthur
Other Authors: Susan Luckman
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/9122