BOOK IN SUPERB CONDITION. SOLID & VERY CLEAN, NO MARKINGS OR INSCRIPTIONS. D/J HAS A VERY SMALL TEAR ON BACK FORE CORNER, 1 INCH LONG AND A MINUTE CLOSE TEAR AT BOTTOM ON BACK. THE MOST COMPLETE AND PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN EXTINCT VERTABRATES. OVERSIZE FOR SHIPPING, PLEASE CONTACT SELLER BEFORE ORDERING IN ORDER TO GET AN ACCURATE COST OF POSTAGE. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.

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Title

KADIMAKARA: Extinct Vertebrates of Australia.

Publisher

PiONEER DESIGN STUDIO, VICTORIA AU.

Publication Date

1985

Language

English

ISBN 10

0909674264

ISBN 13

9780909674267

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

FRANK KNIGHT

Edition

First Edition FIRST PRINTING

Condition

NEAR FINE +

Dust Jacket Condition

PRACTICALLY NEAR FINE

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According to the traditions of some Australian Aborigines, the strange monsters known as Kadimakara once lived in a roof of vegetation over Central Australia, occasionally foraging for foods in the lower world. These Aborigines believed that on one occasion, when the Kadimakara's path back to their home was cut off, they were obliged to roam on earth until they died in Lake Eyre. Their bones, the Aborigines thought, became what we know as fossils. In the richly illustrated volume Kadimakara, pioneers of the bourgeoning field of Australian fossil research provide a broad overview of vertebrate history in that country. Offering a wealth of information on how palaeontologists view their own processes of interpreting what fossil animals and plants were like when alive, the book includes an essay for each of thirty-two extinct vertebrates. The work begins with an engagingly written chapter Priest-Geologists and Knighted Explorers: A Short History of the Discovery of Vertebrate Fossils in Australia by P. V. Rich, continues with an essay The Stirton Years, 1953-1966 by R. H. Tedford, and goes on to a discussion of changing Australian environments throughout geological time by E. M. Truswell and G. E. Wilford. The essays on fossil vertebrates constitute the remaining two-thirds of the book.

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