Pangaea the Publisher

PANGAEA
PUBLISHER FOR NATURE AND PEOPLES OF THE EARTH
Editorial para la naturaleza y los pueblos de la tierra

226 Wheeler Street South
St. Paul, MN 55105-1927 USA
Tel/Fax (651) 690-3320
info @ pangaea.org
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HOW TO ORDER PANGAEA BOOKS and GIFTS

PANGAEA is an independent publishing house founded in 1991 to focus on the natural history of the Earth and on her people.

PANGAEA produces multilingual natural history and cultural works on matters of importance, with emphasis on the Americas. The works are for international audiences, enlightening native to novice about the wildlife and landscapes of nature, as well as cultural and societal issues relating to Americas’ children.

PANGAEA creates visually enticing narratives that reflect the natural wealth of the regions, developed in conjunction with in-country authorities on conservation. In our works on sociology and anthropology our authors have deep personal background in their subject matter. The intimacy our writers and photographers bring to their work is richly authentic.

PANGAEA maintains high production values in all its books. This starts with the written word and image and carries through to all phases of print production. Our goal is for depth and memorability. We want readers to be moved by exquisite visuals and educated by well-honed copy.

PANGAEA sets new precedents: every book we ever have published or will publish is a first of its kind.

CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS

Association of American Publishers

Society of American Travel Writers
The Preeminent Organization of Travel Communicators

ABOUT PANGAEA'S LOGO BAR

Our logo bar design includes a representation of club moss, one of the earliest plant forms on Earth, dating from the age of the supercontinent Pangaea nearly 225 million years ago. The carbon remains of the early mosses, which grew over 100 feet high, have been compressed for many millions of years and form our present day coal reserves.

Descendants of these primitive plants (Lycopodium species) thrive as low evergreen ground cover in wilderness forests, spreading by underground rootstocks to form small colonies. They derive their name from the reproductive "strobili," spike-like "clubs" containing spores that protrude from the top of some of the 400 species of this flowerless plant. Including the strobili, the club mosses of our era generally grow to only 3 to 16 inches tall, although they can branch for several feet along the ground, hence the common name ground pine.

Club mosses grow in damp places, including in the tropics and on temperate heaths and mountainsides. Some resemble creeping pine boughs, while others look like miniature fir trees, although they are more closely related to the ferns. Their fine yellow spores, known as lycopodium powder, have been used for fireworks and old-time camera flash powder.