Buried treasure

Journey into deep time

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  • Published 20220503
  • ISBN: 978-1-922212-74-0
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

This piece from Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World won the Australian Museum’s 2023 Eureka Prize for Science Journalism and was selected for Grattan Institute’s Prime Minister’s Summer Reading List for 2022.

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