Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia
Michael Novacek
380 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0374528764
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Language: English
Publish: March 15, 2003
AdventureBiographyDinosaursHistoryMemoirNatural HistoryNonfictionPalaeontologyScience
“A superb introduction to paleontology as it really is and how it is done, from fish to dinosaur, bird, and mammal.” ―Edward O. Wilson Michael Novacek, a renowned paleontologist who has discovered important fossils on virtually every continent, is an authority on patterns of evolution and on the relationships among extinct and extant organisms. Time Traveler is his captivating account of how his boyhood enthusiasm for dinosaurs became a lifelong commitment to vanguard science. Novacek writes of the alluring perils of fieldwork with affection and discernment, and he illuminates the most exciting issues in paleontology today.