Few wild animals have so attached their fortunes to human enterprise as the rabbit. It has been hunted by the rich and eaten by the poor, despised by the farmer and praised by the landlord. It lives in searing deserts and freezing alps, in suburban gardens and broad pasture lands. When the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Cove in 1788 its cargo included five rabbits. A hundred years later this small, attractive animal had colonised Australia. A survivor of drought, fire, flood, diseases, predators and poisons, it changed this continent forever. Tooth and Nail is a luminous and hugely entertaining history of how people have responded to the rabbit.
