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William E. Davis, Jr. is Professor Emeritus at Boston University after 38 years of teaching science. He is the author or editor of nine previous books and nearly 500 book chapters, professional and popular scientific articles, and reviews. He is an ornithologist who first visited Tasmania in 1990 to study its birdlife and fell in love with the region. He has returned to Tasmania seven times since then, prowling and probing every corner of the island in preparation for writing this book. He has logged thousands of kilometres by car, boat and small aircraft surveying the natural history of Tasmania, and countless hours in libraries reading the specialized works of others. The result is a book intended to foster a love of Tasmanian natural history.