The Dinosaur Hunters
by Deborah Cadbury
The Victorian search for dinosaurs.
A highly entertaining book about the early days of British paleontology, concentrating mainly on the rival figures of Gideon Mantell and Richard Owen.
Note: The American title for this book is Terrible Lizard: The First Dinosaur Hunters and the Birth of a New Science.
Please note: Any referral payments received for linking to other websites will be sent to my favourite charity, The HMS Beagle Project.
There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
Charles Darwin
On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species
Join Us
The Friends of Charles Darwin currently have 3216 members in 87 countries.
Our most recent new member is Patrick Wallace Duggan of Los Angeles, California, USA.
If you haven't done so already, why not become a member? It's free, and entitles you to put the letters FCD after your name.
Web Presences
