Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway: A Road Trip Through the Best of the Prehistoric American West
“Would make anyone want to go on a fossil hunt.”—True West "This is one of a tiny handful of books equally useful to adults and twelve-year olds. It's a funny, stealthily informative account of wandering dinosaur mavens meeting others of their kind, and also discovering ancient creatures and...
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“Would make anyone want to go on a fossil hunt.”—True West "This is one of a tiny handful of books equally useful to adults and twelve-year olds. It's a funny, stealthily informative account of wandering dinosaur mavens meeting others of their kind, and also discovering ancient creatures and plants never seen before."—ForewordCruisin'the Fossil Freeway follows the most unusual travels of a paleontologist and artist as they drive across the West in search of fossils, encountering “paleonerds” like themselves and evidence of everything from suburban T. rexes to ancient fossilized forests.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781555914516 (1555914519)
Publish date: October 8th 2007
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
This book is about the joys and struggles of paleontology and fossil collecting. I am a fossil geek, and let's be honest here, I spent a month this summer with my dad and mom looking at a lot of the sites mentioned, and even speaking with a number of the people featured in this book. So I can't real...