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The Dragon Seekers
How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin
Author: Christopher McGowan
Narrator: Stuart Langton
Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 12/11/2008
Category: History
Synopsis
In the midst of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary group of scientists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric worlda world that they had to piece together from the fossilized, fragmentary remains of animals no one had ever seen.
These nineteenthcentury pioneers were an eccentric lot that included a workingclass woman, an Oxford professor with a theatrical bent, a crisisridden country doctor who was never quite accepted among Londons scientific elite, and an expert anatomist who once dissected a rhino in his living room.
These were the Dragon Seekers, the people who brought the myths to life and whose work, within a populace raised on a literal interpretation of Genesis, laid the groundwork for the revolutionary ideas of Darwin.