Dinosaurs at the dinner party : how an eccentric group of Victorians discovered prehistoric creatures and accidentally upended the world
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New York : Scribner, 2024.
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First Scribner hardcover edition.
ISBN
9781982199616, 198219961X
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xiii, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of 19 plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
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Wadleigh Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Adult Nonfiction
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Published
New York : Scribner, 2024.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
ISBN
9781982199616, 198219961X

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-322) and index.
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"In the early 1800s the world was a safe and cozy place. 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, Victorians unearthed enormous bones--bones that reached as high as a man's head. No one had ever seen such things. Outside of myths and fairy tales, no one had even imagined that creatures like three-toed giants had once lumbered across the land. And if anyone had somehow conjured up such a scene, they would never have imagined that all those animals could have vanished, hundreds of millions of years ago. The thought of sudden, arbitrary disappearance from life was unnerving and forced the Victorians to rethink everything they knew about the world. Now, in Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, celebrated storyteller and historian Edward Dolnick leads us through a compelling true adventure as the paleontologists of the first half of the 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; and moves to a brilliant, eccentric geologist named William Buckland, a kind of Doctor Doolittle on a mission to eat his way through the entire animal kingdom; and then on to Richard Owen, the most respected and the most despised scientist of his generation. 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 their place in it, and how a group of paleontologists worked to bring it back into focus again."--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Dolnick, E. (2024). Dinosaurs at the dinner party: how an eccentric group of Victorians discovered prehistoric creatures and accidentally upended the world (First Scribner hardcover edition.). Scribner.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Dolnick, Edward, 1952-. 2024. Dinosaurs At the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World. New York: Scribner.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Dolnick, Edward, 1952-. Dinosaurs At the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World New York: Scribner, 2024.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Dolnick, E. (2024). Dinosaurs at the dinner party: how an eccentric group of victorians discovered prehistoric creatures and accidentally upended the world. First Scribner hardcover edn. New York: Scribner.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Dolnick, Edward. Dinosaurs At the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World First Scribner hardcover edition., Scribner, 2024.

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