Word: coorinna
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...COORINNA (181 pp.) - Erie Wilson -Random House...
Modern literature is well-stocked with humans who act like beasts; two new books feature beasts who act almost human. Bandoola stars a Burmese elephant, Coorinna a Tasmanian wolf. Both are good company, but Bandoola has the edge since it tells the engaging true story of the most notable work elephant in modern Burmese history, as pieced together and witnessed by James H. (Elephant Bill] Williams. Bandoola's onetime overseer...
Winning Devil. Coorinna, unlike Bandoola, poses as a novel, but is really a straight bit of nature reporting by Erie Wilson, a "volunteer ranger under the New South Wales Fauna Protection Panel." His hero, Coorinna, is a rare breed of marsupial wolf, now nearly extinct. The life and times of Coorinna are largely a matter of fighting to eat and eating to fight. A sly and winning devil, Coorinna meets a violent end, but not before Author Wilson can treat him and the reader to such exotic Australian fauna and flora as striped bandicoots, ti trees and brush-tongued lorikeets...
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