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Dinosaur impressions : postcards from a paleontologist / Philippe Taquet ; translated by Kevin Padian.
Author
Taquet, Philippe
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Uniform title
Empreinte des dinosaures.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Description
xi, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Lewis Library - Stacks
QE22.T36 T3713 1998
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Subject(s)
Dinosaurs
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Paleontology
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Taquet, Philippe
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Translator
Padian, Kevin
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Autobiographies
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Summary note
Takes the reader on a surprisingly far-flung tour ranging from the Provence countryside to the Niger desert in search of dinosaur bones and what they have to tell us about a vanished world.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index.
Contents
1. Gadoufaoua: In the Sands of the Tenere
2. The Ouranosaurus; or, How to Bring a Dinosaur Back to Life
3. Tracking the Dinosaurs
4. Many Crocodiles, One Continent
5. In Morocco with the Giants of the Atlas
6. In the Steppes of Central Asia
7. A Bone Hunter in Laos
8. Across Europe with the Dinosaurs
9. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurian Empire
Afterword / Philippe Taquet and Kevin Padian.
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ISBN
0521583721 ((hb))
9780521583725 ((hb))
0521779308
9780521779302
LCCN
98011560
OCLC
38535935
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