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

by Grady, Wayne

• 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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