BAC3719 Pioneer Design Studio, Lilydale: 1985. Quarto, dustwrapper, 284 pp., colour plates by Frank Knight.<P> WAS $45. An excellent book, handsomely illustrated with a scholarly text. According to the traditions of some Australian Aborigines, the strange monsters known as "Kadimakara" once lived in a "roof" of vegetations 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 the earth until they died in Lake Eyre. Their bones, the Aborigines thought, became what we know as fossils. In the richly illustrated volume <I>Kadimakara</I>, pioneers of the bourgeoning filed 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 the thirty-two extinct vertebrates. ISBN: 9780691087337 $15.00AUD
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