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Title: Among the Islands

Subtitle: Adventures in the Pacific

Author: Tim Flannery

Narrator: Noah Michael Levine

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-20-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Environment

Publisher's Summary:

Tim Flannery is one of the world's most influential scientists, credited with discovering more species than Darwin. In Among the Islands, Flannery recounts a series of expeditions he made at the dawn of his career to the strange tropical islands of the South Pacific, a great arc stretching nearly 4,000 miles from the postcard perfection of Polynesia to some of the largest, highest, most ancient, and most rugged islands on Earth.

Flannery was traveling in search of rare and undiscovered mammal species, but he found much more: wild, weird places where local taboos, foul weather, dense jungle, and sheer remoteness made for difficult and dramatic exploration.

Among the Islands is full of fascinating creatures - monkey-faced bats, giant fats, gazelle-faced black wallabies, and more - and the adventure of discovery. This is an ideal listen for anyone who has ever imagined voyaging to the ends of the Earth to uncover and study the rare and the wonderful.

Members Reviews:

Not Just Dots on a Map

This is the memoir of an Australian naturalist who, twenty years ago, made the effort to find and study mammals on remote Pacific islands before they became extinct. If he could discover them, then they could be protected.

The man has a sense of humor - - -and he needed it to deal with the native peoples who still live traditional lives among the coconut trees... . but he also had to deal with environmental disruption and exploitation of the forests, which made the finding of obscure species almost impossible.

He also had a brush with a cannibal culture of not too long ago - - in Fiji. Not for the squeamish to read the account of a missionary of 100 years ago.

This is a lively read.....Australians are almost always entertaining.

Perfect for the Armchair Traveler

The description and the two reviews I've read say it all very well. How neat to be able to visit these remote islands--without the inconvenience of travel, bugs, snakes, diseases and enervating tropical heat! The movie "PT-109" showed these beautiful places and the gorgeous pacific. And a long time ago I read a book by Charis Crockett, an anthropologist in New Guinea, called "The House in the Rain Forest". She typed much of her book with a tree kangaroo on her shoulder. Fascinating places with an amazing variety of flora and fauna. I highly recommend both books.

My only complaint is the shortage of photos! How I'd love to see the coral and colorful fish, the birds, more flowers, and views of the rain forests! The native people are interesting, the bats and rats are cute (I suspect that it would take a zoologist to call them beautiful as he does) and I'm glad he included the pictures. But five or ten times that many would have made a really superior book. I bought this thru Amazon.

Adventures in a small corner of the Pacific

Flannery, an Australian naturalist, is a great writer, his classic being "Throwim Way Leg." If this book doesn't measure up, it's because of its limited scope - not a review of the Pacific Islands, as the title suggests, but a limited area (New Guinea/Solomon Islands) visited by the writer many years ago to collect specimens. The reader would have to, first, understand how naturalists can get thrilled over things may people wouldn't, such as subtle gradations in birds' wings.