Dinosaur Mountain Digging into the Jurassic Age

Name: Dinosaur Mountain Digging into the Jurassic Age
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ISBN: 9780374317898

ISBN-10: 0374317895

ISBN-13: 9780374317898

Edition: 2010

Authors: Deborah Kogan Ray

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Earl Douglass was a teenager when he first heard about the Bone Warsthe frenzied race between paleontologists to unearth and classify dinosaur fossilsand he remained fascinated with these prehistoric giants for the rest of his life. As a geologist and botanist working at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Douglass had a hunch that the vast untouched rock strata in northeastern Utah just may have been a haven for Jurassic fossil beds. In 1908, he set out by mule team to the Uinta Basin to dig and discover. Find me "something big," Andrew Carnegie instructed.Little did Carnegie know exactly how well Douglass would heed those words. Sixteen years and 350 tons of fossils later,…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/27/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 40
Size: 11.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Born in 1940 in Philadelphia, PA, author and illustrator Deborah Kogan Ray studied painting and printmaking at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She is the author of eight books and the illustrator of more than 60 books for children. Among her many awards are the Drexel Citation for Career Distinction in the Field of Books for Children and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant Award for Painting. Her paintings and prints of landscape and nature subjects have been shown in 42 one-person and hundreds of group exhibitions in museums and galleries. They are in private and public collections throughout the world.