Her latest book, A Future in Flames, is a timely exploration of Australia’s bushfire history and how we chose to live with fire.ĭanielle has a background in psychology and a doctorate in zoology and teaches scientific writing and non-fiction writing across Australia. Prehistoric Giants: the megafauna of Australia has been shortlisted the the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Voyages to the South Seas won the 2007 Nettie Palmer Prize for Non Fiction in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and is currently being translated for publication in France. Her first book, Killers in Eden, was made into an award winning documentary. Even Zaglossus hacketii, an echidna, was the size of a sheep!ĭanielle Clode is the author of six non-fiction titles on topics ranging from megafauna to French explorers. There was also the awesome Megalania prisca, an enormeous goanna-like carnivore that weighed at least 600 kilos and grew to 5.5 metres long. Imagine an Australian landscape in which Diprotodon optatum roamed - this rhinoceros-sized diprotodon was probably the largest marsupial ever to exist. Prehistoric Giants, the second in the Museum Victoria Nature series, introduces the reader to the amazing world of Australian megafauna in the Pleistoceine era.
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