Author: Mary E. WhitePublisher:
ISBN: 9780730104759
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This second edition of an evolutionary history, first published in 1986, has been updated to include the most recent ideas about the evolution of Australia's flora and the nature of Gondwana forests at the time of separation from Antarctica. Illustrated with over 400 photographs of fossils and living plants, and also maps, diagrams and drawings. Includes a bibliography and an index. The author is a former curator of plant fossils at the Australian Museum, Sydney. Her other publications include 'The Nature of Hidden Worlds' and 'Time in Our Hands'. The photographer is a well-known wildlife cameraman who has won a number of awards for natural history documentation.
