Australia; the east.1566566142 Australia; the east. Beletsky, Les. Interlink INTERLINK - A commercial product comprising hardware and software for file transfer between IBM and VAX computers. Publishing Group 2007 544 pages $29.95 Paperback Travellers' wildlife guides QL338 A must for anyone sightseeing in Australia, this guide provides the information necessary to identify the strange and spectacular flora and fauna that can be found in the eastern part of the country. The guide includes full-color illustrations of almost 650 of Australia's most common fish, amphibians amphibians members of the animal class Amphibia. Includes frogs, toads, newts, salamanders and cecilians all capable of living on land or in water. , reptiles reptiles terrestrial or aquatic vertebrates which breathe air through lungs and have a skin covering of horny scales. They are poikilothermic, oviparous or ovoviviparous, and, if they have legs they are short and constructed solely for crawling. , birds and mammals. The text includes information on the ecology, behavior and conservation of profiled animals, a section on the Great Barrier Reef Great Barrier Reef, largest complex of coral reef in the world, c.1,250 mi (2,000 km) long, in the Coral Sea, forming a natural breakwater for the coast of Queensland, NE Australia. and on commonly sighted underwater animals and fish, and descriptions of the most frequently visited parks and reserves in eastern Australia and Tasmania. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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