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9781568582610

The Bone Museum: Travels in the Lost Worlds of Dinosaurs and Birds

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  • ISBN13:

    9781568582610

  • ISBN10:

    1568582617

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-04-24
  • Publisher: Perseus Books Group
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Summary

From China to Patagonia, award-winning science writer Wayne Grady accompanies a team of paleontologists on several digs. Following the work of Phil Currie, a leading vertebrate paleontologist, the author traces the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds. Living in tents and experiencing fieldwork as well as the thrill of discovery firsthand, Grady recounts his journey with a storyteller’s sense of narrative.

Author Biography

An award-winning science and nature writer, Wayne Grady was the science editor for Equinox magazine and is the author of six books, including The Quiet Limit of the World, which was shortlisted for the Canadian Governor General's Award in 1998. The Bone Museum was published in Canada, where Grady lives with his wife, Merilyn Simonds

Table of Contents

PART ONE: FLIGHT PATHS
1(54)
Phil Currie's Christmas Turkey
3(26)
Lost Worlds
29(26)
PART TWO: PATAGONIA
55(124)
To the Rio Negro
57(18)
Theropod Heaven
75(28)
Desert Rain
103(16)
Overburden
119(20)
Beyond the Dusty Universe
139(24)
The Living Screen
163(16)
PART THREE: THE BADLANDS
179(94)
The Call of the Wakon Bird
181(24)
A Day at the Bone Museum
205(22)
Dry Island
227(26)
The Fossil Song
253(20)
Ghost Birds
273

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