The future eaters: an ecological history of the Australasian lands and people

"Since that first brave adventurer left the great Afro-Asian homeland to travel down the long chain of islands to Australia, human beings have consumed the resources they would need for their own future. The Aborigines, Maoris and other Polynesian peoples were the world's original future eaters. They changed the flora and fauna in ways that now seem inconceivable. Europeans have made an even greater impact. Today future eating is a universal occupation." (Back cover) ILLUSTRATED Non-Fiction: History: Flannery