
2003
Paperback
201-300 Pages
Mystery And Thriller Novels Books
Valerie Wilding
9781407115078
Thriller & Mystery
Scholastic
English
India
Name : Discovering Dinosaurs (Double Take)
Author : Valerie Wilding
Book Format : Paperback
Genre : Thriller & Mystery
ISBN : 9781407115078
Language : English
Pages : 201-300 Pages
Publish Year : 2003
Publisher : Scholastic
Sub Genre : Mystery And Thriller Novels Books
Gideon Mantell - the hard-working doctor of humble birth who devotes his life to unearthing fossils around his home town of Lewes. His most famous find is a skeleton which he names Iguanodon. Facing bankruptcy and the debtors prison, he is forced to sell his 25-year-old fossil collection. After an accident leaves him in severe pain, he dies of opium overdose, not credited in his lifetime for his achievements. Richard Owen - an anatomist with ambition. Climbs to the top of the scientific establishment by claiming the work of Mantell and others as his own. Names 'dinosaurs' in a fossil report based on Mantell's findings and is asked to provide models for the Crystal Palace, which are still there. Links his findings to the Biblical story of evolution and is eventually discredited following the publication of Darwin's Origin of the Species.
Country of Origin : India
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