Riversleigh: The Story of Animals in the Ancient Rainforests of Inland Australia
Natural History Paleontology Geology Earth Sciences Educational Textbook Australian Prehistory Fossil Reference
Riversleigh: The Story of Animals in the Ancient Rainforests of Inland Australia is the definitive hard-cover field guide to one of the world’s richest fossil sites. Written by internationally respected palaeontologists Henk Godthelp, Michael Archer and Suzanne Hand, this 264-page, 1998 New Holland textbook unlocks the 25-million-year story hidden in Queensland’s limestone outcrops. Readers meet marsupial lions, giant horned turtles, fangaroos and more than 200 other extinct species that once thrived in lush inland rainforests, all illustrated with museum-quality photographs, maps and reconstructions. For adult learners, senior secondary students and anyone passionate about Australian natural history, it is both an authoritative reference and an engaging narrative that brings deep-time Australia vividly to life.
Collectors prize this large-format (290 mm × 220 mm) hardback for its rarity and durability. Weighing a substantial 1.375 kg and printed on high-grade matte paper, the book is engineered for decades of library or field-bag use. This copy is in very good condition: pages are crisp, unmarked and free of dog-ears, while the binding remains square and tight—no loose signatures or cracked hinges. With no prior owner notes or shelf-wear to the interior, it presents as near-new on the shelf and is ready for immediate research, gifting or display.
Owning Riversleigh means possessing the only single-volume synthesis of three decades of Riversleigh excavations, long out of print and increasingly scarce in clean, unschooled condition. Whether you are building a working geology/palaeontology library, sourcing curriculum support for senior earth-science units, or hunting the perfect gift for a fossil enthusiast, this copy offers premium content and collectability without the premium price of a signed or limited edition.
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