Kadimakara Extinct Vertabrates of Australia

Rich, P. V., G. F. Van Tets, F. Knight

ISBN 10: 0909674264 / ISBN 13: 9780909674267

Published by Pioneer Design Studio, Victoria, Australia, 1985

8.75" X 12.25" 284 pps. plus a number of 4-color illustrated plates with numerous b/w photographs,and maps, . Text and plates are clean, tight and unmarked. Brown textured paper-bound boards with white printing on spine have one small distressed area on front cover but are otherwise clean and bright with minimal wear. Red-brown DJ with pale brown title and white subtitle plus 3 small full-color illustrations is clean and bright with minor edge and surface wear. In protective mylar. Seller Inventory # 500000

Synopsis:

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.

Synopsis: Originally published in 1985(Pioneer Design Studio, Victoria, Australia) and here republished with a prefatory and bibliographic update, this is an absolute beauty of a book oversize (8<3/4>x12<1/4>") and gorgeously illustrated by Frank Knight. Pioneers in the field of Australian fossil research provide a broad overview of vertebrate history in tha

Bibliographic Details

Title: Kadimakara Extinct Vertabrates of Australia
Publisher: Pioneer Design Studio, Victoria, Australia
Publication Date: 1985
Binding: Stitched Hardcover
Illustrator: Knight, Frank
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition.