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    The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World
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    The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World
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    The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World

    Written by Deborah Cadbury

    Narrated by Andrew Sachs

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    About this audiobook

    The story of two nineteenth-century scientists who revealed one of the most significant events in the natural history of this planet: the existence of dinosaurs.

    In ‘The Dinosaur Hunters’ Deborah Cadbury brilliantly recreates the remarkable story of the bitter rivalry between two men: Gideon Mantell uncovered giant bones in a Sussex quarry, became obsessed with the lost world of the reptiles and was driven to despair. Richard Owen, a brilliant anatomist, gave the extinct creatures their name and secured for himself unrivalled international acclaim.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateJul 2, 2009
    ISBN9780007333080
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    The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World
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    Deborah Cadbury

    Deborah Cadbury is the award-winning TV science producer for the BBC, including Horizon for which she won an Emmy . She is also the highly-acclaimed author of ‘The Seven Wonders of the Industrial World’, ‘The Feminisation of Nature’, ‘The Dinosaur Hunters’, ‘The Lost King of France’ and ‘Space Race’.

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    • 4/5
      A history of the scientists of the 19th century who began to understand the nature of the fossil shells and bones found in Britain, and developed the first theories of dinosaurs and geological history. The bitter rivalry between Gideon Mantell, who first discovered and collected many dinosaur bones, and Richard Owen, who gave them their name and got all the glory of their discovery, makes a good story. A good popular history of science, well illustrated, and an enjoyable read.
    • 5/5
      Chock full of dinosaurs! And cool 19th century science, when everything was a curiosity. So it's England and people have just started to realize that you could put fossils together to get giant skeletons. I was thinking about how insane that must have been -- nowadays, if you found a fossilized dinosaur skeleton in your backyard, it would be amazing but at least you'd start from the point of knowing what a dinosaur WAS. Imagine not knowing what dinosaurs were, and then finding the skeleton and realizing you had a FREAKISHLY GIANT LIZARD on your hands. This book mostly focused on Gideon Mantell, a mostly self-taught amateur fossil-hunter, and Richard Owen, also brilliant but apparently a bit of a jerk who did not play well with others. Overall, the book was interesting and painted a very understandable picture of the context in which this study and research was happening -- they were wrong about a lot of things (we now know), but the incredible thing is how much they got right.