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Publisher : Master Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780890512777
When an ardent evolutionist and an adventuring creationist take a team into the wilds of the Congo, in search of living dinosaurs, the reader knows this is no ordinary story.
Author : Wendy McClure
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1594485682
A pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession will make this a sure favorite.
Author : Craig Childs
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0307908666
From the author of Apocalyptic Planet comes a vivid travelogue through prehistory, that traces the arrival of the first people in North America at least twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that tell of their lives and fates. In Atlas of a Lost World, Craig Childs upends our notions of where these people came from and who they were. How they got here, persevered, and ultimately thrived is a story that resonates from the Pleistocene to our modern era. The lower sea levels of the Ice Age exposed a vast land bridge between Asia and North America, but the land bridge was not the only way across. Different people arrived from different directions, and not all at the same time. The first explorers of the New World were few, their encampments fleeting. The continent they reached had no people but was inhabited by megafauna—mastodons, giant bears, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, five-hundred-pound panthers, enormous bison, and sloths that stood one story tall. The first people were hunters—Paleolithic spear points are still encrusted with the proteins of their prey—but they were wildly outnumbered and many would themselves have been prey to the much larger animals. Atlas of a Lost World chronicles the last millennia of the Ice Age, the violent oscillations and retreat of glaciers, the clues and traces that document the first encounters of early humans, and the animals whose presence governed the humans’ chances for survival. A blend of science and personal narrative reveals how much has changed since the time of mammoth hunters, and how little. Across unexplored landscapes yet to be peopled, readers will see the Ice Age, and their own age, in a whole new light.
Author : Martin Brasier
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 0191613908
Darwin made a powerful argument for evolution in the Origin of Species, based on all the evidence available to him. But a few things puzzled him. One was how inheritance works - he did not know about genes. This book concerns another of Darwin's Dilemmas, and the efforts of modern palaeontologists to solve it. What puzzled Darwin is that the most very ancient rocks, before the Cambrian, seemed to be barren, when he would expect them to be teeming with life. Darwin speculated that this was probably because the fossils had not been found yet. Decades of work by modern palaeontologists have indeed brought us amazing fossils from far beyond the Cambrian, from the depths of the Precambrian, so life was certainly around. Yet the fossils are enigmatic, and something does seem to happen around the Cambrian to speed up evolution drastically and produce many of the early forms of animals we know today. In this book, Martin Brasier, a leading palaeontologist working on early life, takes us into the deep, dark ages of the Precambrian to explore Darwin's Lost World. Decoding the evidence in these ancient rocks, piecing together the puzzle of what happened over 540 million years ago to drive what is known as the Cambrian Explosion, is very difficult. The world was vastly different then from the one we know now, and we are in terrain with few familiar landmarks. Brasier is a master storyteller, and combines the account of what we now know of the strange creatures of these ancient times with engaging and amusing anecdotes from his expeditions to Siberia, Outer Mongolia, Barbuda, and other places, giving a vivid impression of the people, places, and challenges involved in such work. He ends by presenting his own take on the Cambrian Explosion, based on the picture emerging from this very active field of research. A vital clue involves worms - burrowing worms are one of the key signs of the start of the Cambrian. This is fitting: Darwin was inordinately fond of worms.
Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345538994
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo comes the sequel to the smash-hit Jurassic Park, a thriller that’s been millions of years in the making. “Fast and gripping.”—The Washington Post Book World It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end—the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, and the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived. . . . “Harrowing thrills . . . fast-paced and engaging.”—People “A very scary read.”—Entertainment Weekly “Action-packed.”—New York Daily News “An edge-of-the-seat tale.”—St. Petersburg Times
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A scientist finds dinosaurs roaming in an unexplored area in South America.
Author : Merle Rasmussen
Publisher :
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 1985-06-01
Category : Dungeons and Dragons (Game)
ISBN : 9780880381970
Author : David Roberts
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 27,69 MB
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0393241890
An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels known to very few modern travelers. His adventures range across Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado, and illuminate the mysteries of the Ancestral Puebloans and their contemporary neighbors the Mogollon and Fremont, as well as of the more recent Navajo and Comanche.
Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780938501237
Author : Rob DeSalle
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 9780060977351
From two top scientists comes a fun and fascinating book that takes readers on a deliciously fun scientific romp into the far reaches of today's state-of-the-art science to explore the worlds of dinosaurs and DNA. Line drawings.