The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science

Aronson, Marc; Mayor, Adrienne

ISBN 10: 1426311095 ISBN 13: 9781426311093

Verlag: National Geographic Children's Books, 2014

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"Focused through a single woman's obsessive search, this book comes off as both a riveting historical mystery as well as a wonderful example of how a person's passions might take them places they never imagined they might travel."--Fuse #8, School Library Journal

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Could Griffins have been real? When Adrienne Mayor carefully read the ancient Greek and Roman descriptions, this mythic hybrid of a lion and an eagle sounded like something people had actually seen. What could explain that evidence? After a decade of hunting through myths, poring over old maps, and tracing the discoveries of modern dinosaur hunters, she found the answer: awesome dinosaur fossils observed by ancient gold-hunters in the Gobi desert. Here is the story of one insightful, curious, and determined woman who solved the mystery of the Griffin, and invented a new science. Now she and others travel the world matching myths and fossils.

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• Verlag: National Geographic Children's Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1426311095
• ISBN 13: 9781426311093
• Einband: Encuadernación de biblioteca
• Anzahl der Seiten: 48
• Zeichner: Muller Chris