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.
The nineteenth-century pioneers of these new discipli.
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.
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
