A VENOMOUS LIFE - Autobiography by Professor Struan Sutherland - 1998

Hyland House, South Melbourne, Victoria - ISBN:1864470267 1998 softcover, 6" x 9¼" Previous owner's name inside cover. Book in VERY GOOD condition From a small boy in Bendigo who experimented with explosives to the middle-aged scientist who risked his career for the sake of his principles, Struan Sutherland has rushed on where fools might fear to tread. To his dedication, his leadership and his intuition we owe the discovery of an antivenom of the Sydney Funnel-web spider, the development of venom detecting kits and the pioneering pressure-immobilisation techniques of first aid. And then there are the valuable discoveries that have never been implemented …