Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia

Novacek, Michael

ISBN 10: 0374278806 / ISBN 13: 9780374278809

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374278806
• ISBN 13: 9780374278809
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Michael Novacek is Curator of Paleontology, as well as Senior Vice President and Provost of Science at the American Museum of Natural History. His last book, Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs (1996), was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.