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This was no myth or fairy tale
Fossilized three-toed footprints the size of dinner plates in Massachusetts... enormous bones—bones that reached as high as a man’s head—in England….
Here is a compelling true adventure as the paleontologists of the first half of the nineteenth century puzzled their way through the fossil record to create the story of dinosaurs we know today. The tale begins with Mary Anning, a poor, uneducated woman who had a sixth sense for finding fossils buried deep inside cliffs; and moves to a brilliant, eccentric geologist named William Buckland, a kind of Doctor Doolittle on a mission to eat his way through the entire animal kingdom; and then on to Richard Owen, the most respected and the most despised scientist of his generation.
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"What a brilliant read. Dolnick elegantly sketches out the long-ago lives of the fossil hunters and Deep Time detectives whose labors will fuel scientific inquiry and the human imagination for as long as humanity manages to last. Dolnick's enthusiasm and respect for his evocative subject shows on every page. He leaves readers both marveling at the known history of life on Earth and perhaps pondering their own place within it. I admired every bit of this book." —Paige Williams
Additional Book Details
Pages: | 336 |
Release Date: | August 6, 2024 |
ISBN: | 9781982199616 |
Club ID: | 1429946 |
Format: | Regular Print |