Swimming in Stone, The Amazing Gogo Fossils of the Kimberley

Freemantle, WA : Freemantle Arts Centre Press, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Octavo (standard book size). Binding is tight, cover and spine fully intact Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting No foxing in this copy Edges all neat and clean, some very faint foxing on top edge Front cover has a vertical crease. and inside page is a little creased When David Attenborough filmed his ground-breaking series Life on Earth in 1978, he chose one place in the world to demonstrate the early evolution of fishes: Gogo.

Gogo, in the wild Kimberly district of Western Australia, is one of the world's most significant fossil sites because it shows 375 million-year old fishes preserved in stunning three-dimensional preservation. These fossils provide a rare window into the anatomy of primitive fishes at the critical stage when fishes were starting to evolve into the first land animals the line ultimately leading to humans. Yet, despite being such an important fossil site, it has had a mysterious and checkered history of discovery.

Written by paleontologist John Long, who has spent over 20 years searching and working the Gogo sites, Swimming in Stone tells the amazing stories of the people who discovered the fossils and the development of the chemical preparation methods that freed the old bones from their rocky tombs. Colour photos, B & W photos and B & W illustrations