Book review: ‘The Dinosaur Hunters’ by Deborah Cadbury

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.

• Buy from Amazon.co.uk
• Buy from Amazon.com
• …or, better still, buy or order a copy from you local, tax-paying independent bookshop—they could do with the help.

Writer and photographer Richard Carter, FCD is the founder of the Friends of Charles Darwin. He lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.Website • Facebook • Twitter • Newsletter • Books

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