Danielle Clode

Danielle Clode is a Doctor of Philosophy and has a degree in politics and psychology, specialising in animal behaviour. After a stint as a zookeeper at Adelaide Zoo, she took up a Rhodes Scholarship and completed her doctorate in zoology. Danielle continues to do zoological research as an associate at the University of Melbourne and works as a science writer. Her first book, Killers in Eden is an extraordinary story of killer whales. Her latest book, Voyages to the South Seas, was recently published by Melbourne University Press.

Danielle lives on the outskirts of Melbourne.

Books by Danielle Clode

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  Killers in Eden

  The remarkable story of the killer whales of Eden - their skills, intelligence and their surprisingly cooperative behaviour and relationship with the nineteenth century whalers.

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  Continent of Curiousities

  Collecting curiosities was a gentlemanly occupation for wealthy and educated 18th-century Europeans. Few creatures aroused more curiosity than those from Australia. But collections demand organisation, and classification itself reveals patterns to life that cannot be ignored. From a leisurely occupation, the science of biology was born. Cabinets de curiosites became national museums, with specimens from Australia playing an integral role in all kinds of biological debates. Australian museums now foster their own research and continue to provide major and sometimes unexpected perspectives to international scientific developments.

  Continent of Curiosities follows the thread of individual natural history stories through the scientists of one of Australia's oldest museums, Museum Victoria. Together, these stories weave a history of the development of biological science from an Australian perspective, with insights into the people and places that influence the way we see and understand the natural world around us.

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  Voyages to the South Seas

  Voyages to the South Seas recounts the epic journeys of French explorers to Australia and encompasses a remarkable period of French and Australian history - when Australia was France's Mars and marsupials were her aliens. Australia may have been colonised by England, but for many years, by sheer weight of specimens and scientific documentation, Australia's biodiversity belonged to France.

  Tracing the often tragic voyages of Bougainville, Lapérouse, D'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet, d'Urville and others to Australia from 1768 to 1828, Voyages to the South Seas brings to life the changing society that launched these ambitious endeavours and the scientific discoveries they made.

  Winner - Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction 2007

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