The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Science, and the Global Quest for Fossils, Paperback/Paige Williams - Hachette Books

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In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book, Paige Williams "does for Fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man\'s reckless attempt to sell a Dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot).
At The New Yorker , she has written about suburban politics in Detroit, the death penalty in Alabama, paleoanthropology in South Africa, and the theft of cultural palimony from the Tlingit peoples of Alaska..
Williams has been a fellow of The MacDowell Colony and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.
She is the Laventhol/Newsday Visiting Professor at Columbia University\'s Graduate School of Journalism, and has taught at schools including the University of Mississippi, New York University, the Missouri School of Journalism, and, at M.
I.
T., in the Knight Science Journalism program.
A National Magazine Award winner for feature writing, she has had her journalism anthologized in various volumes of the Best American series, including The Best American Magazine Writing and The Best American Crime Writing .
About the Author: Paige Williams is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a Mississippi native .
In her first book, Paige Williams has given readers an irresistible story that spans continents, cultures, and millennia as she examines the question of who, ultimately, owns the past.
A story that stretches from Florida\'s Land O\' Lakes to the Gobi Desert, The Dinosaur Artist illuminates the history of fossil collecting--a murky, sometimes risky business, populated by eccentrics and obsessives, where the lines between poacher and hunter, collector and smuggler, enthusiast and opportunist, can easily blur.
In the tradition of The Orchid Thief , The Dinosaur Artist is a stunning work of narrative journalism about humans\' relationship with natural history and a seemingly intractable conflict between Science and commerce.
An international custody battle ensued, and Prokopi watched his own world unravel. bataar went to auction, a network of paleontologists alerted the government of Mongolia to the eye-catching lot.
This time, facing financial strain, had Prokopi gone too far? As the T.
But there was a problem.
A onetime collegiate-level swimmer who spent his teenage years diving for shark teeth, Prokopi\'s singular Obsession with Fossils fueled a thriving business hunting, preparing, and selling specimens, to clients ranging from natural history museums to avid private collectors like actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Nicolas Cage.
Eric Prokopi, a thirty-eight-year-old Floridian, was the man who had brought this extraordinary skeleton to market.
At eight-feet high and twenty-four feet long, the specimen was spectacular, and when the gavel sounded, the winning bid was over $1 million.
The Fossils now on display in a Manhattan event space had been unearthed in Mongolia, more than 6,000 miles away. bataar , a close cousin to the most famous animal that ever lived.
In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: "a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton." In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T.
In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book, Paige Williams "does for Fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man\'s reckless attempt to sell a Dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot)