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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Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover; this is NOT ex-library; dustjacket w/ several small tears/chips along edges; minor edgewear; light creasing of upper corner of first couple of pages; o/w book in very good condition. This is a heavy volume; extra shipping may be required for priority mail or international orders. Book. Codice articolo 040789
Descrizione libro Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Frank Knight (illustratore). First Edition. Well illustrated with full page colour plates by Frank Knight and black and white photograpgs, tall quarto, pp 284, very slight foxing to the fore-edge otherwise extremely clean internally, brown cloth in very good condition, in a very good dustwrapper. [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.]. Codice articolo 018249
Descrizione libro Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 284 pp, hardbound, F-/VG, dj light extremity wear & curling, gently bumped tips, else very clean and binding tight, NOT EXLIB, mylar protected. Codice articolo 8676
Descrizione libro Original publisher's dark-red paper-covered boards, white title spine, pictorial dustjacket, 2nd printing [1985], large 4to: 284pp.,very richly illustrated with coloured platesmaps - photographs - drawings, list of names vertebrate palaeontologists in Australia, references, index. Codice articolo 123445
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Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: Fine. First Edition thus. Kadimakara by Various Authors. Published by Independently Published in 1991. Paperback ISBN:9780691087337. Collectible item in very fine condition. Codice articolo 0691087337
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