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The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America
Keith Stewart Thomson
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| #2562989 in Books | 2008-05-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x1.31 x6.13l,1.62 | File type: PDF | 424 pages||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Have shovel, will travel|By NCstat|I read most of this book while on a train (trains featuring prominently in the book) and kept finding myself looking out my window wistfully as if I might soon arrive in a West that no longer exists in order to dig up dinosaur bones.
Overall this book really captured the imagination, with a vivid portrayal of a US that seems long, l||
“Professor Thomson writes with authority, enthusiasm, and impressive breadth on the history of paleontology in America, which often reads like an epic adventure story.”—Andrew O’Shaughnessy, Saunders Director, Robert H. Smith
The uncovering in the mid-1700s of fossilized mastodon bones and teeth at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, signaled the beginning of a great American adventure. The West was opening up and unexplored lands beckoned. Unimagined paleontological treasures awaited discovery: strange horned mammals, birds with teeth, flying reptiles, gigantic fish, diminutive ancestors of horses and camels, and more than a hundred different kinds of dinosaurs. This exciting book tells the s...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America | Keith Stewart Thomson. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
