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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed By
- N/A
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults, Young Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Pages
- 352
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Publication Date
- 2024-08-06
- Era
- 2020s
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781982199616
- Book Title
- Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party : How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Nature, Science, History
- Topic
- Natural History, Earth Sciences / Geology, Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Expeditions & Discoveries
- Item Weight
- 18.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
198219961X
ISBN-13
9781982199616
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13063407862
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party : How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Natural History, Earth Sciences / Geology, Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Expeditions & Discoveries
Publication Year
2024
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-003627
Reviews
"Dolnick tells the tale of the first discoveries of dinosaurs and other extinct monsters, and the founding of the new science of geology, with enthusiasm and clarity. He shows how early peoples struggled to understand fossils, and then the shocking understanding 200 years ago that the Earth had once been populated by creatures unlike anything now living." -- Michael J. Benton, author of Dinosaurs Rediscovered and Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Bristol, "[An] exuberant tale . . . intriguing . . . a delightful, engrossing confluence of Victorian science and history." -- Kirkus Reviews, "Offers a wealth of context . . . These include forays into historical astronomy and philosophy, as well as contemporary science, and their sum creates a lively and engrossing narrative . . . Dolnick is evidently at home in this subject, and he succeeds in creating an engagingly broad story." -- Science, "With wit, warmth, and humor, Edward Dolnick immerses us in one of the most exhilarating times in the history of science: when a motley crew of professors, naturalists, preachers, and bone hunters discovered the existence of dinosaurs. Written like an adventure novel but fashioned with historical rigor, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party is a gripping story of how we came to understand that the Earth was old and once populated by ancient beasts." -- Steve Brusatte, professor and paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh and New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs "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, New Yorker staff writer and author of The Dinosaur Artist "As Edward Dolnick reminds us in this treat of a book, the legacy of the dinosaurs is more than the bones exhumed from the rock. Dinosaurs and many other creatures in the fossil menagerie forced us to fundamentally rethink ourselves and our role in life's ever-unfolding story." -- Riley Black, author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and When the Earth Was Green "Dolnick tells the tale of the first discoveries of dinosaurs and other extinct monsters, and the founding of the new science of geology, with enthusiasm and clarity. He shows how early peoples struggled to understand fossils, and then the shocking understanding 200 years ago that the Earth had once been populated by creatures unlike anything now living." -- Michael J. Benton, author of Dinosaurs Rediscovered and Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Bristol
Synopsis
From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods , an "utterly delightful...hugely entertaining" ( Air Mail ) book about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history. In the early 1800s the natural world was a safe and cozy place, or so people believed. But then a twelve-year-old farm boy in Massachusetts stumbled on a row of fossilized three-toed footprints the size of dinner plates--the first dinosaur tracks ever found. Soon, in England, scientists unearthed enormous bones that reached as high as a man's head. Outside of myths and fairy tales, no one had even imagined that creatures like three-toed giants had once lumbered across the land--nor dreamed that they could all have vanished, hundreds of millions years ago. In Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party , celebrated storyteller and historian Edward Dolnick leads us through a compelling true adventure as the paleontologists of the early 19th 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; moves to William Buckland, an eccentric geologist who filled his home with specimens and famously pieced together a prehistoric scene from the fossil record inside a cave; and then on to the controversial Richard Owen, the era's best-known scientist, and the one who coined the term "dinosaur." "Exuberant" ( Kirkus Reviews ), entertaining, erudite, and featuring an unconventional cast of characters, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party tells the story of how the accidental discovery of prehistoric creatures upended humanity's understanding of the world and its own place within it.
LC Classification Number
QE705.G7D65 2024
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- a***t (794)- Feedback left by buyer.Past yearVerified purchaseShipping: Shipped the day of the sale; arrived in 5 days in my city, but then the post office sent my package to Colorado. It took another 10 days to get delivered. Packaging: as expected As described: described as NEW. The books do look NEW until you at the page edges which are tanned to almost yellow. Books were probably never read, but they probably sat in sunlight for a long time. Value: Despite yellow-tan page edges, these books were a great value.Lot Of 4 Inspector Maigret Novels (Trade PB) by Georges Simenon - BRAND NEW! (#256759728931)
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