Time Traveler
In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia
- 381 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Hunting for fossils with a preeminent guide and teacher Michael Novacek, a world-renowned paleontologist who has discovered important fossils on virtually every continent, is an authority on patterns of evolution and on the relationships among extinct and extant organisms. Time Traveler is his captivating account of how his boyhood enthusiasm for dinosaurs became a lifelong commitment to vanguard science. He takes us with him as he discovers fossils in his own backyard in Los Angeles, then goes looking for them in the high Andes, the black volcanic mountains of Yemen, and the incredibly rich fossil badlands of the Gobi desert.Wherever Novacek goes he searches for still undiscovered evidence of what life was like on Earth millions of years ago. Along the way he has almost drowned, been stung by deadly scorpions, been held at gunpoint by a renegade army, and nearly choked in raging dust storms. Fieldwork is very demanding in a host of unusual, dramatic, sometimes hilarious ways, and Novacek writes of its alluring perils with affection and discernment. But Time Traveler also makes sense of many complex themes - about dinosaur evolution, continental drift, mass extinctions, new methods for understanding ancient environments, and the evolutionary secrets of DNA in fossil organisms. It is also an enthralling adventure story.
Frequently asked questions
Information
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Table of Contents
- 1 - Dinosaur Dreamer
- 2 - The Canyon of Time
- 3 - Early Expeditions
- 4 - The Plateau of the Dragons
- 5 - The Rookies
- 6 - Journey of Death
- 7 - The Paleontological Chain Gang
- 8 - Red Rocks
- 9 - Back to the Bones
- 10 - The Pits
- 11 - The Age of Mammals Revisited
- 12 - Road Cuts and Fossil Vermin
- 13 - Badlands, Bones, and Bone Hunters
- 14 - Hell Creek Is for Dinosaurs
- 15 - The Curious Beasts of Old Baja
- 16 - Baking Below the Buttes
- 17 - Whales on Mountaintops
- 18 - A Man and His Horse
- 19 - Pampa Castillo
- 20 - Bone Hunters in Patagonia
- 21 - Above the Clouds and the Condors
- 22 - The Land of Sheba
- 23 - To the Foot of the Flaming Cliffs
- 24 - The Cretaceous Cornucopia
- 25 - Last Chance Canyon
- Also by Michael Novacek
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Reading List
- Index
- Copyright Page