The Victorian search for dinosaurs.
A highly entertaining book about the early days of British paleontology, concentrating mainly on the rival figures of Gideon Mantell and Richard Owen.
Note: The American title for this book is Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science.
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Buy my book: On the Moor: Science, History and Nature on a Country Walk
“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
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“…wonderfully droll, witty and entertaining… At their best Carter’s moorland walks and his meandering intellectual talk are part of a single, deeply coherent enterprise: a restless inquiry into the meaning of place and the nature of self.”
—Mark Cocker, author and naturalist
Amazon: UK | .COM | etc.
