"Over the space of nine months, naturalists Edward and Debbie Kanze drove an old station wagon 25,000 miles around Australia, spending nearly all their time in wild places where wildlife abounds.". "The Kanzes' odyssey began in Melbourne. Soon they were reeling from the cold, rocky mountains of Tasmania (home of the devil, who appears in these pages) via Ayers Rock and the central deserts to the steamy, crocodile-infested estuaries of the Northern Territory. The couple slept on the ground amid the world's most dangerous serpents. They endured the seductive bonhomie of lotos-eating Australians and hobnobbed with kangaroos, koalas, wornbats, platypuses, giant monitor lizards, kookaburras, and more than 400 species of birds. They ran a gauntlet of epic hazards. All these adventures come alive in Kangaroo Dreaming, a humorous walkabout through the flora, fauna, geography, and history of that surreal, over-the-rainbow place Australians call "Oz.""--BOOK JACKET.