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The Dinosaur Artist: obsession, betrayal, and the quest for Earth’s ultimate
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- EAN
- 9781911617907
- UPC
- 9781911617907
- ISBN
- 9781911617907
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- Item Length
- 23.4 cm
- Item Weight
- 0.48 kg
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Publisher
- Scribe Publications
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- Dinosaurs, True Crime, Natural Materials
- Item Width
- 153mm
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
About this product
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New Yorker magazine staff writer Paige Williams delves into the surprisingly perilous world of fossil collectors in this riveting true tale. In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: 'a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton'. In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar - a close cousin to the more-famous T. rex - that had been unearthed in Mongolia. At 2.4 metres high and 7.3 metres long, the specimen was spectacular, and the winning bid was over $1 million. Eric Prokopi, a 38-year-old Floridian, had brought this extraordinary skeleton to market. A one-time swimmer who'd spent his teenage years diving for shark teeth, Prokopi's singular obsession with fossils fuelled a thriving business, hunting for, preparing, and selling specimens to clients ranging from natural-history museums to avid private collectors like Leonardo DiCaprio. But had Prokopi gone too far this time? As the T. bataar went to auction, a network of paleontologists alerted the government of Mongolia to the eye-catching lot. An international custody battle ensued, with Prokopi watching as his own world unravelled. The Dinosaur Artist is a stunning work of narrative journalism about humans' relationship with natural history, and about a seemingly intractable conflict between science and commerce. A story that stretches from Florida's Land O' Lakes to the Gobi Desert, The Dinosaur Artist illuminates the history of fossil collecting - a murky, sometimes risky business, populated by eccentrics and obsessives, where the lines between poacher and hunter, collector and smuggler, and enthusiast and opportunist can easily blur.
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Scribe Publications
ISBN-13
9781911617907
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21046648458
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Book Title
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Dinosaurs, True Crime, Natural Materials
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
432 Pages
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Item Height
234mm
Item Width
153mm
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United Kingdom
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