The Dragon Seekers: How an Extraordinary Cicle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin - Softcover

Mcgowan, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738206733 ISBN 13: 9780738206738

Verlag: BASIC BOOKS, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary circle of fossilists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric world--a world they had to piece together from the fossilized and often fragmentary remains of animals never before seen. In this transporting, seamlessly written book, Christopher McGowan takes us back to a time when geology and paleontology were as young and vibrant as genetic engineering is today. The nineteenth-century pioneers of these new disciplines were an eccentric lot, from different social classes and sexes, with a range of motivations in fossil hunting. These "Dragon Seekers" sought to persuade a populace raised on a literal interpretation of Genesis that the ground they walked was once a very frightening and unfamiliar place. A sweeping narrative history, The Dragon Seekers shows how these remarkable characters forever changed our interpretation of the world and its inhabitants.

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Christopher McGowan is a full professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Toronto and Senior Curator of Paleobiology at the Royal Ontario Museum. He is the author of ten other books, including The Raptor and the Lamb and Dinosaurs, Spitfires, and Sea Dragons.

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• Verlag: BASIC BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0738206733
• ISBN 13: 9780738206738
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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