Quest for the African Dinosaurs: Ancient Roots of the Modern World - Softcover

Jacobs, Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080186481X ISBN 13: 9780801864810

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Winner of the Colbert Award for the best adult book about dinosaurs

Winner of the Colbert Award for the best adult book about dinosaurs

Louis Jacobs reopened paleontologists' eyes to the African continent when he uncovered a major fossil site in the hills of Malawi in the 1980s. During five digging seasons in Malawi and three in Cameroon, Jacobs found the remains of two meat-eating theropods, two herbivorous sauropods, an odd crocodile about the size of a Chihuahua, and rare early mammals. Now in paperback, Quest for the African Dinosaurs includes Jacobs' new introduction, which discusses recent developments in paleontological research in Africa.

About this title

Book Description:

The story of one paleontologist's fossil digs in Africa, and his unexpected findings

About the Author:

Louis Jacobs, formerly a visiting scholar at Harvard, teaches at Southern Methodist University and is president of the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 080186481X
• ISBN 13: 9780801864810
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344