The Road to Gondwana

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In search of the lost supercontinent

By Bill Morris

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An immersive and fascinating journey into deep time, charting the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana through a billion years of Earth’s history. Gondwana is a mystery of geological history; a lost supercontinent and a place woven into the consciousness of all who inhabit its scattered fragments. Today,... Read More

Format: Hardback

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The Road to Gondwana

This is the story of a journey. Actually, it’s a story of many journeys, of paths woven through the fabric of Earth’s history, and of human history, all of which lead to one semi-mythical, and yet completely real place — the lost supercontinent Gondwana.

Description

An immersive and fascinating journey into deep time, charting the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana through a billion years of Earth’s history.

Gondwana is a mystery of geological history; a lost supercontinent and a place woven into the consciousness of all who inhabit its scattered fragments. Today, the people who live in Africa, South America, India, Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Arabia spend their lives walking around on what’s left of Gondwana. But what was life like when it was whole?

The Road to Gondwana traces the steps science took to find Gondwana, and the evolutionary journey of Gondwana itself. Our tour guide on this journey is Glossopteris – an extinct tree that dominated the supercontinent for 50 million years, before vanishing in the most devastating event ever to strike life on this planet, the Permian mass extinction.

This is a story about deep time and the challenges that face those who venture there. It’s about the importance of imagination in science, and the reasons that the journey towards understanding is sometimes more important than the destination.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922539335

Publisher: Exisle Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 October 2022

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Exisle Publishing

Illustration: 42 color & b-w photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 152.0mm

Weight: 272g

Pages: 256

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Bill Morris Education & Reference New Zealand and Australia Published New Zealand Published Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Bill Morris is a writer, documentary filmmaker and musician based in Port Chalmers, New Zealand. He has worked extensively as a wildlife filmmaker for NHNZ, the BBC Natural History Unit and others, and his passion for science and stories of the natural world informs all his work.