Jill Hunting For Want of Wings: A Bird with Teeth and a Dinosaur in the Family 9780806176611

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Автор: Jill Hunting
Название: For Want of Wings: A Bird with Teeth and a Dinosaur in the Family
ISBN: 9780806176611
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Мемуары

Географическое открытие и исследование

Экология

Динозавры и доисторический мир

Горные породы, минералы и окаменелости

ISBN-10: 080617661X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 260
Вес: 0.40 кг.
Дата издания: 28.02.2022
Язык: English
Размер: 152 x 227 x 28
Ключевые слова: Dinosaurs & the prehistoric world,Geographical discovery & exploration,Memoirs,Natural history,Rocks, minerals & fossils,The environment, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists,HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries,NATURE / Fossils
Подзаголовок: A bird with teeth and a dinosaur in the family
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In 1872, a young graduate of Yale University named Thomas Russell unearthed the bones of an 83,000,000-year-old dinosaur in western Kansas. The rare fossil, an avian dinosaur with teeth and flightless wings, proved that birds evolved from reptiles. More than a century later, Russell’s great-granddaughter set out to retrace her ancestor’s forgotten expedition. Part detective history, part memoir, For Want of Wings is Jill Hunting’s captivating account of her journey into prehistory, national history, and family history. In her quest to piece together fragments of her family’s past, Hunting ends up crisscrossing the United States, from California to Connecticut. On her first trip across the Colorado Rockies to the fossil bed site near Russell Springs, Kansas, Hunting brings along her then twenty-six-year-old daughter. When the book opens, mother and daughter are both at crossroads, each seeking to understand the impact of personal decisions on the landscape of her life. As Hunting ventures forward, she encounters unexpected resources, such as ten-year-old triplets who converse with her about dinosaurs and a Connecticut museum where portraits of her ancestors hang on the walls. Through lively descriptions of these visits, Hunting advances a view of history as nonlinear and full of unlikely coincidences.For Want of Wings is also the carefully researched story of the least known of Yale’s four expeditions into the American West, led by eminent paleontologist O. C. Marsh; the friendship between Russell’s father and abolitionist John Brown; a portrait of a mother and daughter evolving in self-understanding; and an inquiry into matters of race in American history and the author’s own family. In the end, all these pieces converge, like fragments of a fossil, to form an exquisitely patterned work of historical exploration.
Дополнительное описание: Memoirs|Nature and the natural world: general interest|Dinosaurs and the prehistoric world: general interest|Geographical discovery and exploration|Rocks, minerals and fossils: general interest|The environment

For Want of Wings: A Bird with Teeth and a Dinosaur in the Family, Jill Hunting