This book follows the epic voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, and Alfred Russel Wallace through the voyage of Continent Australia after it breaks away from Antarctica 50 million years ago -- with its raft of Gondwanaland flora and fauna -- and begins its journey north towards the equator. The voyage of Joseph Banks on theEndeavour, who with Daniel Solander became the first trained naturalists todescribe the unique flora and fauna of Continent Australia that had evolvedduring its 30 million years of isolation. The voyage of Charles Darwin on theBeagle, who after his observations in South America and the Galapagos Islands,sat on the banks of the Coxs River in New South Wales and tried to rationalisehis belief in the idea of biblical creation and understand the origin ofspecies. The voyage of Alfred Russel Wallace, whorealised that the Lombok Strait in Indonesia represents the biogeographicalboundary between the fauna of Asia and those of Australasia. On the Asian sideare elephants, tigers, primates, and specific birds. On the Australasian sideare marsupials such as the possum-like cuscus and the Aru wallaby, as well asbirds specific to Australia such as white cockatoos, brush turkeys, and thespectacular Birds of Paradise. It was tectonic plate movement that broughtthese disparate worlds together and it was Alfred Russel Wallace's 'Letter fromTernate' that forced Charles Darwin to finally publish his landmark work On the Origin of Species. Follow the seminal historical journeys of these men to discover Where Australia Collides with Asia.