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| Despite the fantasy, this is a story about science and philosophy, about who we are and what geology can teach us. Sandy is a Darwinian figure endeavouring to make sense of what he, a grey kangaroo, can observe, giving life meaning and teasing out theories.
The life of Sandy in a small mob on the Banksia Peninsula, is turned into turmoil by a dramatic meteor strike on a hillside near the mob's home range. Curiosity drives young Sandy to explore, not just the meteor crater, but far and wide on the spectacular peninsula.
A strange set of circumstances brings Sandy into contact with a number of human bipeds, both friend and foe. One of them is seventeen year old Jason Worthy, whose intimate knowledge of the events of Sandy's life make him an ideal first person story teller in the second part of the tale. Jason is driven by his own ambition to learn more about the natural world of Banksia, and to find a trilobite fossil better preserved than the one his grandfather had once seen in the now forgotten Whitehouse collection of the 1930s.
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