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If you're of a certain age, you likely went through a dinosaur phase as a kid, perhaps even dreaming of turning up the bones of stegosauruses, tyrannosauruses, and other famed creatures of the Age of Reptiles. In this affectionate memoir of "a life in the field," paleontologist Michael Novacek writes of his early years entertaining such dreams and of his ongoing education in the ways of the "terrible lizards." Now curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, Novacek has traveled the world on the trail of fossils and ancient bones, collecting thousands on thousands of specimens. Often, we gather from his pages, his expeditions have been fraught with danger, whether in the form of some exotic disease or some incautious driver on a faraway road. No matter: for Novacek, the thrill of the hunt is reason enough to shrug off peril, and he shares charming anecdotes drawn from his decades of fieldwork, as well as his understanding of what such research can teach us about the past and present alike. Armchair travelers and paleontologists in training, to say nothing of readers going through a dinosaur phase of their own, will take much pleasure in Novacek's journeys into his--and the planet's--past. --Gregory McNamee
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From Publishers Weekly
Transporting readers to dinosaur excavations across the globe, paleontologist Novacek (Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs) offers a spellbinding natural history of our planet, as well as the equally fascinating story of how he fell into the profession. As a child, Novacek mined for bones in the backyards of Los Angeles, studied the geostrata of the Grand Canyon, discovered a trilobite fossil in a Wisconsin quarry and frequently visited the local La Brea Tar Pits. Though Novacek claims he's no Indiana Jones, he finds himself on the wrong side of a gun more than once whether the gun be held by Mexican drunkards or the Yemeni army. The most rousing passages depict stormy expeditions to Chilean Patagonia in search of fossilized whale vertebrae along an ancient shoreline in the Andes an incredible 10,000 feet above sea level. Novacek's team also discovered rare dinosaur trackways that today appear to scale the vertical walls of deep canyons, and the team accomplished what Charles Darwin set out to do 150 years earlier they collected fossils of giant sloths, armadillos and the peculiar glyptodonts for the study of mammalian vertebrae. Novacek mixes heady science his explanations of Carbon-14 dating, geological development, ancient magnetic forces and paleontological history are clear and dynamic with hard-grit adventure, making for a passionate memoir that readers will find appealing, especially, perhaps, young "dinophiles" in search of a vocation. Illus. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Product details
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (February 10, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780374278809
ISBN-13: 978-0374278809
ASIN: 0374278806
Product Dimensions:
6.1 x 1.3 x 9.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.3 out of 5 stars
15 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#3,363,683 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I had an extremely hard time getting through this book, which very much surprised me. I had read another book by Michael Novacek, which was quite good and a book I would recommend, "Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs." His current book "Time Traveler" really misses the mark. I think the main problem, is that Mr. Novacek is a Paleontologist, and a quite good one I should add, but he's not a very exciting writer. He has chosen to write about all his experiences in the feild, from the very beginning of his career and sometimes that's just not very interesting. I was bored because even Mr. Novacek sounded like he was bored in describing some of his early field excursions. He writes much more about his dangerous run-ins with the locals, than he does about the fossils he is out to find. As a matter of fact, he seems to find very little in the way of significant fossil material throughout the whole book. Other than his trip to Mongolia, which he has already written about in his previous book, I found nothing I thought was worth writing about. I guess the bottom line for me is, I highly respect Mr. Novacek as a Paleontologist, I just think he wasn't very excited with the material when he wrote this book and it shows. I am therefore afraid I cannot recommend this book. I would like to recommend a book that I have recently read, that I think is very good. "Dragon Hunter" by Charles Gallenkamp. This is adventure and excitement at it's greatest. You won't fall asleep reading this book
A little "ponderous". Kind of a life sketch more than an interesting account of finding actual dinosaurs.
Not a bad book, could have had more illustrations and examples of fossils found in different parts of the world.
Not exactly what we expected....a little hard to follow....son didn't finish the book....for upper reading level.....more of a story than facts...
This book learns us a lot about prehistoric life.It shows also how very difficult it is to search for fossils.
After Michael Novacek wrote _Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs_, a very successful non-specialist account of his fossil-hunting expeditions in Mongolia, he found that readers told him that they especially enjoyed his descriptions of the expeditions and life in the field, perhaps even more than the substantial paleontology he included. With that in mind, he has now written _Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals from Montana to Mongolia_ (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), which does not scrimp on scientific information, but still consists mostly of stories about how paleontologists do what they do. Interested in fossils even as a boy, in graduate school he got interested in extinct insectivores, which are now represented by hedgehogs, shrews, and moles, but which were much more diverse in the past. Novacek admits that these aren't the showiest of ancient animals: "they might be more aptly called vermin than beasts." But in an evolutionary sense, they have vast importance; from such shrewlike creatures came rodents, bats, elephants, whales, and of course, humans. He shows us what sort of work he has done on the creatures, and why it has been important.The book's main attraction is his stories of field work all over the world. They are told with good humor, and occasionally with forgiveness. He starts as a novice, worried that the graduate students are going to play tricks on him, and eventually ends up leading expeditions himself, to Baja, Mongolia, the Andes, and Yemen. Reading these tales makes one realize that there truly must be a fantastically strong appeal for this sort of work, if Novacek still likes it after all the difficulties he experienced, from mildly irritating to potentially lethal. "Our hands were swollen and blistered from swinging sledges all day, and our backs were sore from cradling heavy plaster blocks as we climbed the steep slope back to the vehicles. The work was hard. But I liked the routine, I felt useful; we were a chain gang in the service of science." There are a few tales worthy of Indiana Jones, like how his party is ominously detained by the militia in Yemen. In the Andes, he is tangled in the stirrup of a horse and dragged down painfully, temporarily ruining his legs. He is bitten in the groin by the world's most deadly scorpions in Baja. He discovers that a desert can bloom into swarms of insects denser than that in a rain forest because they are attracted to sweat. There are bar fights. Shrapnel from a colleague's hammer on a specimen severs one of his arteries. "As some of my college mates would say, `It's a lot of trouble for a few old bones.'"Novacek's animated tales and explanations of how he has done his work give genuine insight into his passion. He has included lots of real science here about plate tectonics, evolution, and much more. For those who never graduated beyond childhood dinomania, it will tell them what they missed. Best of all, this book ought to be in the hands of young people who are in the thralls of such enthusiasm, for in its pages are revealed what it is really like to be a paleontologist.
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