Curious Footprints: Professor Hitchcock's Dinosaur Tracks & Other Natural History Treasures at Amherst College - Softcover

Pick, Nancy; Ward, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0943184096 ISBN 13: 9780943184098

Publisher: Amherst College Pr, 2006

Synopsis

Book Description Curious Footprints: Professor Hitchcock's Dinosaur Tracks & Other Natural History Treasures at Amherst College tells the personal story of Edward Hitchcock, the college's third president, an evangelical minister who amassed the world's largest collection of dinosaur tracks. In a fascinating twist, he tried to prove that the footprints were made not by dinosaurs, but by gigantic ancient birds.

The second half of the book presents the luminous color photographs of Frank Ward, who was the Amherst College Photographer for 22 years. His photo essay captures the college's natural history artifacts in all their charm, discovering in them grace, humor, and mystery.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"In my opinion these footsteps make one of the most curious discoveries of the present century." - Charles Darwin

About the Author:

Nancy Pick graduated from Amherst College in 1983, when women at the school were still a novelty. A former journalist for the Baltimore Sun, she now works as a freelance writer. She has written about Edward Hitchcock for Gastronomica and the Boston Globe Magazine. Her first book, The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HarperCollins, 2004), was named one of the twenty best science books of the year by Discover magazine. She lives in Sunderland, Massachusetts, under the shadow of Mount Sugarloaf.

Frank Ward was the Amherst College Photographer for twenty-two years. His photographs have appeared in The New York Times, Dance magazine and Oprah magazine. He has received several grants, including a Packard Foundation/Center for Balkan Development grant to photograph in Kosovo, and a National Endowment for the Arts/New England Foundation for the Arts grant for his work in Holyoke, Massachusetts. His photographs have been exhibited widely, including at OK Harris Gallery in New York; Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy; and the Institute for North American Culture, Santiago, Chile. He has an MFA from Bard College and has taught photography at Amherst College and Smith College. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of Photography at Holyoke Community College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amherst College Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0943184096
• ISBN 13: 9780943184098
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 121