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Time Traveler
In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia
- 381 pages
- English
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About this book
True stories of fossil-hunting adventures around the globe from "a world-class field scientist [and] a highly entertaining writer" (
The American Scholar).
Michael Novacek, a world-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. He takes us with him as he discovers fossils in his own backyard in Los Angeles, then goes looking for them in the high Andes, the black volcanic mountains of Yemen, and the incredibly rich fossil badlands of the Gobi Desert.
Wherever Novacek goes, he searches for still-undiscovered evidence of what life was like on Earth millions of years ago. Along the way he has almost drowned, been stung by deadly scorpions, been held at gunpoint by a renegade army, and nearly choked in raging dust storms. Fieldwork is very demanding in a host of unusual, dramatic, sometimes hilarious ways, and Novacek writes of its alluring perils with affection and discernment. But in addition to being an enthralling adventure story, Time Traveler makes sense of many complex themes—about dinosaur evolution, continental drift, mass extinctions, new methods for understanding ancient environments, and the evolutionary secrets of DNA in fossil organisms.
Includes photos and illustrations
"A superb introduction to paleontology." —Edward O. Wilson
"An engaging book [that] gives us an excellent sense of the way paleontologists have arrived at their world-shaking conclusions." — The New York Times Book Review
"Novacek offers a spellbinding natural history of our planet, as well as the equally fascinating story of how he fell into the profession." — Publishers Weekly
Michael Novacek, a world-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. He takes us with him as he discovers fossils in his own backyard in Los Angeles, then goes looking for them in the high Andes, the black volcanic mountains of Yemen, and the incredibly rich fossil badlands of the Gobi Desert.
Wherever Novacek goes, he searches for still-undiscovered evidence of what life was like on Earth millions of years ago. Along the way he has almost drowned, been stung by deadly scorpions, been held at gunpoint by a renegade army, and nearly choked in raging dust storms. Fieldwork is very demanding in a host of unusual, dramatic, sometimes hilarious ways, and Novacek writes of its alluring perils with affection and discernment. But in addition to being an enthralling adventure story, Time Traveler makes sense of many complex themes—about dinosaur evolution, continental drift, mass extinctions, new methods for understanding ancient environments, and the evolutionary secrets of DNA in fossil organisms.
Includes photos and illustrations
"A superb introduction to paleontology." —Edward O. Wilson
"An engaging book [that] gives us an excellent sense of the way paleontologists have arrived at their world-shaking conclusions." — The New York Times Book Review
"Novacek offers a spellbinding natural history of our planet, as well as the equally fascinating story of how he fell into the profession." — Publishers Weekly
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Table of Contents
- 1 - Dinosaur Dreamer
- 2 - The Canyon of Time
- 3 - Early Expeditions
- 4 - The Plateau of the Dragons
- 5 - The Rookies
- 6 - Journey of Death
- 7 - The Paleontological Chain Gang
- 8 - Red Rocks
- 9 - Back to the Bones
- 10 - The Pits
- 11 - The Age of Mammals Revisited
- 12 - Road Cuts and Fossil Vermin
- 13 - Badlands, Bones, and Bone Hunters
- 14 - Hell Creek Is for Dinosaurs
- 15 - The Curious Beasts of Old Baja
- 16 - Baking Below the Buttes
- 17 - Whales on Mountaintops
- 18 - A Man and His Horse
- 19 - Pampa Castillo
- 20 - Bone Hunters in Patagonia
- 21 - Above the Clouds and the Condors
- 22 - The Land of Sheba
- 23 - To the Foot of the Flaming Cliffs
- 24 - The Cretaceous Cornucopia
- 25 - Last Chance Canyon
- Also by Michael Novacek
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Reading List
- Index
- Copyright Page