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Bone Wars: The Excavation Of Andrew Carnegie's Dinosaur

Tom Rea traces the evolution of scientific thought regarding dinosaurs and reveals the deception, hostility, and sometimes outright aggression present in the early years of fossil hunting.  This book details one of the most famous—and notorious—dinosaur skeletons ever discovered: Diplodocus carnegii, named after Andrew Carnegie.

Hardcover: 288 pages

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press; 1 edition (October 11, 2001)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0822941732

ISBN-13: 978-0822941736

Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #654,131 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #86 in Books > Science & Math > Biological Sciences > Animals > Dinosaurs #275 in Books > Science & Math > Biological Sciences > Paleontology #1035 in Books > Science & Math > Earth Sciences > Geology

Where Dead Voices GatherNick ToschesLittle Brown and Companywriter: BRUCE MILLERWith his big bushy moustache and sun-weathered skin,Tom Rea looks like one of the tough paleontologists staringout of one of the black-and-white photographs in his book,Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie'sDinosaur. His voice, though, has the soft polite tone of aprofessional who has worked indoors for the better part of hislife. Imagining Rea to be like one of the men he wrote about isprobably a tribute to how vividly he portrays the people whomade Carnegie's dinosaur such a sensation. Rea is quick tocite the abundance of letters he used as primary source material."The whole story is filled with interesting characters," says Rea."The personalities are so strong in those letters. I don't know ifit's the line of work that draws strong-minded people to it --they certainly weren't in it for the money -- but in any case theydidn't want other people to get in the way of finding out whatthe bones could tell them. Sometimes they disagreed quite strongly."Rea comes from a family that knows geology and paleontology-- his uncle is a geologist; his brother is a geologist at theUniversity of Michigan; geology was also his mother's avocation-- but he came to write his book by following a less scientificpath. He grew up in Pittsburgh looking at Carnegie's dinosaurat the Carnegie Museum. After graduating from WilliamsCollege in Massachusetts in the early 1970s, Rea spent a fewsummers visiting his uncle's ranch.

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