Dinosaurs at the dinner party how an eccentric group of Victorians discovered prehistoric creatures and accidentally upended the world
"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 reache...
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2024.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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