Australia’s dangerous creatures.

Text: David Underhill.
Published: 1993.

• Understand why and how so many of Australia’s native and introduced creatures and plants have the capacity to harm humans.
• Identify potentially dangerous species - what spider is that? Which snakebites can be lethal? - with the aid of hundreds of full-colour photographs, drawings and diagrams.
• Avoid risking your own or your family’s safety by learning where and when such creatures are likely to be found.
• Survive encounters with dangerous  wildlife by knowing what to do in every emergency: step-by-step first aid procedures, life-saving techniques, how to improvise equipment.