The Dragon Seekers: How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin
By Christopher McGowan
Read by Stuart Langton
Unabridged
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3 Formats: CD
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3 Formats: Library CD
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3 Formats: MP3 CD
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ISBN: 9781470892197
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ISBN: 9780786187355
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ISBN: 9780786186518
Runtime: | 8.19 Hours |
Category: | Nonfiction |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
In the midst of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary group of scientists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric world—a world that they had to piece together from the fossilized, fragmentary remains of animals no one had ever seen.
These nineteenth-century pioneers were an eccentric lot that included a working-class woman, an Oxford professor with a theatrical bent, a crisis-ridden country doctor who was never quite accepted among London’s scientific elite, and an expert anatomist who once dissected a rhino in his living room.
These were the Dragon Seekers, the people who brought the myths to life and whose work, within a populace raised on a literal interpretation of Genesis, laid the groundwork for the revolutionary ideas of Darwin.
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Details
Details
Available Formats : | CD, Library CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Nonfiction |
Runtime: | 8.19 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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