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    Condition
    Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
    Signed
    No
    Book Series
    Barnum Brown
    Ex Libris
    Yes
    Narrative Type
    Nonfiction
    Original Language
    English
    Intended Audience
    Adults, Young Adults
    Inscribed
    No
    Edition
    Collector's Edition, Limited Edition
    Vintage
    Yes
    Personalize
    No
    Type
    Novel
    Literary Movement
    Naturalism, Enlightenment
    Era
    1990s
    Personalized
    No
    Features
    Dust Jacket, Ex-Library
    Country/Region of Manufacture
    Unknown
    ISBN
    9780520252646
    Category

    About this product

    Product Identifiers

    Publisher
    University of California Press
    ISBN-10
    0520252640
    ISBN-13
    9780520252646
    eBay Product ID (ePID)
    78710797

    Product Key Features

    Book Title
    Barnum Brown : the Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus Rex
    Number of Pages
    384 Pages
    Language
    English
    Publication Year
    2010
    Topic
    Earth Sciences / Geology, Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Paleontology
    Illustrator
    Yes
    Genre
    Nature, Science
    Author
    Mark Norell, Lowell Dingus
    Format
    Hardcover

    Dimensions

    Item Height
    1.3 in
    Item Weight
    25.6 Oz
    Item Length
    9 in
    Item Width
    6 in

    Additional Product Features

    Intended Audience
    Trade
    LCCN
    2009-040528
    Dewey Edition
    22
    Reviews
    "It is about time someone wrote this book . . . this book tells the story very well . . . Highly recommended."-- Choice, _An authoritative biography of Barnum Brown has long been wanting, and the authors of the new volume have done an overall excellent job of summarizing the achievements of one of the most famous fossil hunters of all time._, Comprehensive and enjoyable . . . A monumental amount of careful research, consultation with colleagues and source checking clearly went into this volume and it will stand forever as the definitive work on this most important character., An authoritative biography of Barnum Brown has long been wanting, and the authors of the new volume have done an overall excellent job of summarizing the achievements of one of the most famous fossil hunters of all time., _Comprehensive and enjoyable . . . A monumental amount of careful research, consultation with colleagues and source checking clearly went into this volume and it will stand forever as the definitive work on this most important character._, _It is about time someone wrote this book . . . this book tells the story very well . . . Highly recommended._, _Occasionally, a biography strikes the perfect note . . . The exhaustive research pays off big for the reader, placing Barnum Brown in the upper ranks of well-written biographies._, _A scholarly but very readable book. Brown emerges as a character one might enjoy sitting beside on a long airplane flight._, "The definitive account of the life and times of a singular man and a superlative fossil hunter."-- Science Blogs, A scholarly but very readable book. Brown emerges as a character one might enjoy sitting beside on a long airplane flight., "An authoritative biography of Barnum Brown has long been wanting, and the authors of the new volume have done an overall excellent job of summarizing the achievements of one of the most famous fossil hunters of all time."--Smithsonian.com/Dinosaur Tracking Blog, "Brown liked bonhomie, incurred woman trouble from time to time, and had a wife whose embellishments of life in the field enliven the biography . . .her letter writing and published books about subsequent digs round out this biography and indicate the public interest in "Mr. Bones" during his lifetime. Dingus and Norell ably revive that in this gap-filling scientific biography.", _Brown liked bonhomie, incurred woman trouble from time to time, and had a wife whose embellishments of life in the field enliven the biography . . .her letter writing and published books about subsequent digs round out this biography and indicate the public interest in _Mr. Bones_ during his lifetime. Dingus and Norell ably revive that in this gap-filling scientific biography._, It is about time someone wrote this book . . . this book tells the story very well . . . Highly recommended., "An authoritative biography of Barnum Brown has long been wanting, and the authors of the new volume have done an overall excellent job of summarizing the achievements of one of the most famous fossil hunters of all time."-- Smithsonian.com/Dinosaur Tracking Blog, "Brown liked bonhomie, incurred woman trouble from time to time, and had a wife whose embellishments of life in the field enliven the biography . . .her letter writing and published books about subsequent digs round out this biography and indicate the public interest in "Mr. Bones" during his lifetime. Dingus and Norell ably revive that in this gap-filling scientific biography."--Booklist, "Dingus and Norell do justice to the unconventional, many-faceted if somewhat mysterious Brown."-- Publishers Weekly, Occasionally, a biography strikes the perfect note . . . The exhaustive research pays off big for the reader, placing Barnum Brown in the upper ranks of well-written biographies.
    Dewey Decimal
    560.92 B
    Table Of Content
    Contents List of Illustrations Prologue: The Mindset of Barnum Brown 1. Child of the Frontier (1873-1889) 2. Student . . . of Sorts (1889-1896) 3. Apprentice Extraordinaire (1896-1898) 4. To Land's End: Patagonia (1898-1900) 5. To the Depths of Hell Creek (1900-1903) 6. Love (1903-1906) 7. Loss (1906-1910) 8. The Canadian Dinosaur Bone Rush (1910-1916) 9. Cuba, Abyssinia, and Other Intrigues (1916-1921) 10. Jewels from the Orient: Raj India (1921-1923) 11. Perils and Pearls Up the Irrawaddy: Burma (1923) 12. Samos: Isle of Intrigue (1923-1925) 13. Ancient Americans Hunting Bison? Birds as Dinosaurs? (1925-1931) 14. Digging--and Flying--for Dinosaurs: Howe Quarry and the Aerial Survey of Western Fossil Beds (1931-1935) 15. Toward the Golden Years: The Mystery Track-Maker and the Glen Rose Trackway (1935-1942) 16. Brown as a Spy, Movie Consultant, and Showman at the World's Fair (1942-1963) Epilogue Appendix 1. List of Major Specimens Collected by Barnum Brown on Display in the AMNH Fossil Halls Appendix 2. Memoirs of Barnum Brown: Discovery, Excavation and Preparation of the Type Specimen Tyrannosaurus rex Appendix 3. Summary of Fossil Collections by Barnum Brown and His AMNH Crews Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
    Synopsis
    From his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873-1963), spending most of it searching for fossils-and sometimes oil-in every corner of the globe. One of the most famous scientists in the world during the middle of the twentieth century, Brown-who lived fast, dressed to the nines, gambled, drank, smoked, and was known as a ladies' man-became as legendary as the dinosaurs he uncovered. Barnum Brown brushes off the loose sediment to reveal the man behind the legend. Drawing on Brown's field correspondence and unpublished notes, and on the writings of his daughter and his two wives, it discloses for the first time details about his life and travels-from his youth on the western frontier to his spying for the U.S. government under cover of his expeditions. This absorbing biography also takes full measure of Brown's extensive scientific accomplishments, making it the definitive account of the life and times of a singular man and a superlative fossil hunter., From his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873-1963), spending most of it searching for fossils--and sometimes oil--in every corner of the globe. One of the most famous scientists in the world during the middle of the twentieth century, Brown--who lived fast, dressed to the nines, gambled, drank, smoked, and was known as a ladies' man--became as legendary as the dinosaurs he uncovered. Barnum Brown brushes off the loose sediment to reveal the man behind the legend. Drawing on Brown's field correspondence and unpublished notes, and on the writings of his daughter and his two wives, it discloses for the first time details about his life and travels--from his youth on the western frontier to his spying for the U.S. government under cover of his expeditions. This absorbing biography also takes full measure of Brown's extensive scientific accomplishments, making it the definitive account of the life and times of a singular man and a superlative fossil hunter.
    LC Classification Number
    QE707.B77D56 2010

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