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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Last Birds
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'Feathers fly when a penniless wildlife artist accidentally traps the world's last living Paradise Parrot in the ramshackle ghost town he shares with his enigmatic pet wallaby and a mysterious Indian barrister. It seems everyone has a claim on the soon-famous bird, and the reclusive and unworldly young painter finds himself up against government bureaucrats, animal protection officials, police, the courts, the gutter press, and an eccentric multi-millionaire birdwatcher with madcap plans of his own. Nothing else for it but to take flight into the great Australian bush where the artist, his brilliant and beautiful, newly discovered zoologist sister, a pompous university professor and an obsessed taxidermist lose their inhibitions, their clothes - and in some cases their minds - living with, and learning to think as, wild kangaroos. In his and her own way, every key character in Andrew Thelander's hilarious, sometimes touching, often profoundly wise, tale is a Last Bird ... an utterly unique, wildly exotic example of an endangered species' (publisher website).

Notes

  • Dedication: Dedicated to the memory of my cousin, Desmond John Spittall (1951-2008)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Wigan, Lancashire,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      BeWrite Books ,
      2009 .
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      Extent: 161p.
      Note/s:
      • Published September 1st 2009
      ISBN: 9781906609108, 1906609101
    • c
      Australia,
      c
      :
      Andrew Thelander ,
      2012 .
      Printed/distributed by CreateSpace
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      Alternative title: Do Kangaroos Believe in God?
      Extent: 122p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 17 November 2012.
      ISBN: 1481017276, 9781481017275
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