Abstract

This is the story of a group of mammals that were isolated from the rest of the world for many millions of years. It is set on the great southern continent of Gondwana that stretched from the Caribbean to the islands of New Guinea and included the three present-day continents of South America, Antarctica and Australasia. The characters are the marsupial mammals and the plot is how they came to be there and how they adapted to the special conditions of their vast homeland.