Into the Dinosaurs' Graveyard: Canadian Digs and Discoveries - Brossura

Spalding, David A. E.

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ISBN 10: 0385257945 ISBN 13: 9780385257947

Casa editrice: Doubleday of Canada, 2001

Riassunto

Since Confederation, evidence of some 50 classes of dinosaurs has been gathered in Canada. Many of these fossils came from the single most bountiful dinosaur site in the world, Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, which to date has yielded more than 250 skeletons of 36 species of dinosaurs, and has helped to establish Canada as the fourth-richest source of fossils in the world.

An utterly absorbing account, Into the Dinosaurs' Graveyard tells the stories of the dinosaur hunters (a variety of mavericks and eccentrics), the important finds they've made in Canada and abroad, and the role they've played in establishing Canada's dinosaur heritage.

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Recensione:

"Spalding tells a colourful tale of eccentric collectors and the long struggle to keep Canadian finds in Canada." --Maclean's

Dinomania for adults." --The Globe and Mail

L'autore:

David Spalding's first dinosaur discovery was a Lambeosaurus, which he found in three separate packing cases in a museum basement. In 1967, he assumed the position of Head Curator of National History at the Provincial Museum of Alberta. There, he established a fossil program that went on to become the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, one of the world's largest fossil museums. David Spalding's books include Dinosaur Hunters: A World-Wide History of Discovery. He lives and works on Pender Island, British Columbia.

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• Editore: Doubleday of Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0385257945
• ISBN 13: 9780385257947
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320