The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World

The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World
Deborah Cadbury

The story of two nineteenth-century scientists who revealed one of the most significant and exciting events in the natural history of this planet: the existence of dinosaurs.In ‘The Dinosaur Hunters’ Deborah Cadbury brilliantly recreates the remarkable story of the bitter rivalry between two men: Gideon Mantell uncovered giant bones in a Sussex quarry, became obsessed with the lost world of the reptiles and was driven to despair. Richard Owen, a brilliant anatomist, gave the extinct creatures their name and secured for himself unrivalled international acclaim.Note that it has not been possible to include the same picture content that appeared in the original print version.

THE

DINOSAUR

HUNTERS

A Story of Scientific RivalryAnd the Discovery of thePrehistoric World

Deborah Cadbury

Dedication (#ulink_c38b93a1-9f5b-5e2f-8227-37bb7a07b0bb)

For my mother and Martin,

the first readers,

with love

Contents

Cover (#u24d241e1-ace7-5b2c-813d-9ee0a93338bd)

Title Page (#ucaba3139-00d1-547f-ae6c-9c4749c24ee6)

Dedication (#uc9ff41f7-e639-55dc-8e30-4db1a792a832)

PART ONE (#uc1394390-7631-52ca-8401-e17b30d4a37c)

1 An Ocean Turned to Stone (#u3f847bda-22eb-58ec-a471-5bdba931ffa7)

2 The World in a Pebble (#u26e1ac8e-0378-5be0-b4c8-86c141a7ab54)

3 Toast of Mice and Crocodiles for Tea (#u14c18132-8219-5e5f-a6a5-d468f37891d4)

4 The Subterranean Forest (#u99c736fe-3464-51b3-a89f-7ef7b9f03560)

5 The Giant Saurians (#litres_trial_promo)

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6 The Young Contender (#litres_trial_promo)

7 Satan’s Creatures (#litres_trial_promo)

8 The Geological Age of Reptiles (#litres_trial_promo)

9 Nature, Red in Tooth and Claw (#litres_trial_promo)

10 Nil Desperandum (#litres_trial_promo)

PART THREE (#litres_trial_promo)

11 Dinosauria (#litres_trial_promo)

12 The Arch-hater (#litres_trial_promo)

13 Dinomania (#litres_trial_promo)

14 Nature without God? (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)

Notes and Sources (#litres_trial_promo)

Select Bibliography (#litres_trial_promo)

Index (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Praise (#litres_trial_promo)

Other Works (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

PART ONE (#ulink_90148cae-b323-515b-875a-8d860d9cc3d2)

1 An Ocean Turned to Stone (#ulink_30a3bf17-c06d-50a0-8281-25d1375e97f8)

She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore,

The shells she sells are sea-shells, I’m sure

For if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore

Then I’m sure she sells sea-shore shells.

Tongue-twister by Terry Sullivan, 1908,

associated with Mary Anning