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Venom : the heroic search for Australia's deadliest snake / Brendan James Murray.

Venom : the heroic search for Australia's deadliest snake / Brendan James Murray.
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ISBN 9781760405694 :
Author Murray, Brendan J. (Brendan James) (author.)
Title Venom : the heroic search for Australia's deadliest snake / Brendan James Murray.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Richmond, Victoria : Echo Publishing, 2017.
© 2017.
Description xiii, 385 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-385)
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.
Subjects Rosendale, George
Antivenins -- History
Guugu Yimithirr (Australian people)
Snakebites -- Australia -- History
Mythology, Aboriginal Australian
Antivenins -- Australia -- History
Poisonous snakes -- Venom -- Social aspects -- Australia
Oxyuranus -- Venom -- Social aspects -- Australia
Australia -- Environmental conditions
Call number 2018.543
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A00939428 2018.543
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