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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Scribner,
2024.
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| Edition: | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A shriek in the night
- "Dragons in their slime"
- The girl who lived
- "The most amazing creature"
- An epic written in chalk
- "The dreadful clink of hammers"
- "It's a beautiful day and the beaches are open"
- Trembling in the dark
- The divine calligrapher
- The apple of God's eye
- Whales in the treetops
- Without a trace
- "None of the advantages"
- "Sister of the above"
- Ferns and fox hunters
- Into the temple of immortality
- Framed for bliss
- "A delicate toast of mice"
- Kirkdale Cave
- In nature's cathedral
- "Quite in love with seaweeds"
- William Paley stubs his toe
- Here be dragons (and giants and cyclopses)
- Looking into Medusa's eyes
- Leibniz's unicorn
- "The grinders of an elephant"
- "The terror of the forest"
- "The very extraordinary SKELETON"
- Noah's ark
- "A cold wind out of a dark cellar"
- Sherlock Holmes ponders a bone
- Bursting the limits of time
- Boiling seas and exploding mountains
- Mayflies and human history
- Scattered by desert winds
- Lizards in scripture?
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Defunct animals and open windows
- The mystery of the moa
- "The invention of dinosaurs"
- "When troubles come, they come not single spies but in battalions"
- Return of the happy world
- Dinner in a dinosaur
- "It is like confessing a murder"
- Epilogue.
