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The Dragon Seekers
Christopher Mcgowan
其他書名
How An Extraordinary Cicle Of Fossilists Discovered The Dinosaurs And Paved The Way For Darwin
出版Basic Books, 2009-04-21
主題Science / General
ISBN07867476849780786747689
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vC4c3Kx746QC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary circle of fossilists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric world--a world they had to piece together from the fossilized and often fragmentary remains of animals never before seen. In this transporting, seamlessly written book, Christopher McGowan takes us back to a time when geology and paleontology were as young and vibrant as genetic engineering is today. The nineteenth-century pioneers of these new disciplines were an eccentric lot, from different social classes and sexes, with a range of motivations in fossil hunting. These "Dragon Seekers" sought to persuade a populace raised on a literal interpretation of Genesis that the ground they walked was once a very frightening and unfamiliar place. A sweeping narrative history, The Dragon Seekers shows how these remarkable characters forever changed our interpretation of the world and its inhabitants.