GRAAFF-REINET NEWS - Geologist Nick Norman, author of Geological Journeys: A traveler’s guide to South Africa’s rocks and landforms and various other user-friendly geological guidebooks, introduced his latest book at the Graaff-Reinet Club in the morning of Saturday 10 February.
The book is called The Woodpecker Mystery: The inevitability of the improbable and deals with birds, trees and geology, focusing on how life, in all its forms, has spread across the world, and, in particular, on birds and trees in Africa and South America.
Marina Rubidge and David McNaughton had got the word out extremely effectively, mainly by social media, and although Nick gave the organisers – Marina and club management - very little time to organise the event, it was well supported to the extent that the Reading Room was packed to capacity.
After fellow-geologist and local celebrity Bruce Rubidge had introduced Nick (including a mild rebuke for Nick’s poaching Graaff-Reinet’s Sue Kroon to be his bride!), Nick gave an account of how he had discovered the extraordinary – not to say improbable - truths about how life, over many millions of years, has colonised every last habitable part of Earth’s surface. The talk was well received, and Nick was on hand afterwards to sign and sell copies of his book.
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