Published Resources Details
Book
- Title
- The greening of Gondwana
- Edition
- 2nd
- Imprint
- Reed, Chatswood, NSW, 1994, 256 pp
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0730104753
- Description
Photography of fossils by Jim Frazier.
This book tells the story of Australia's floral heritage, from its genesis through to the last stages of evolution, and the changes that have come due to the arrival of the white man with crops of exotic plants. The author traces the evolution of plants from the earliest times when all life was confined to the water and the land was barren to the emergence of the first land-plants about 400 million years ago which transformed the world into a green and vibrant place, crowned with flowers.- Abstract
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.