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The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt: The Astonishing and Unlikely True Story of One of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Paleontological Discoveries
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt The Astonishing and Unlikely True Story of One of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Paleontological Discoveries
Author: William Nothdurft
In 1911, Dr. Ernst Stromer led an expedition to Egypt’s Bahariya Oasis in the Sahara and discovered four new species of dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus rex–size predator Spinosaurus. But tragically, all his work was incinerated in 1944 during the Allied bombing of Munich. — In 1999, Josh Smith, then a graduate stu...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780375759796
ISBN-10: 0375759794
Publication Date: 9/9/2003
Pages: 272
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
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Well written book, there's not enough of a story to really appeal to a general audience, I suppose, so the author goes back and forth between the 1911 expedition and the 1999-2000 expedition to Egypt, as well as detours covering the British strategy for bombing Nazi Germany, the water table in western Egypt, and an overview of 4.6 billion years of geology. Certainly an excellent book for an aspiring college-aged paleontologist.
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