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037    |bHachette Books, 53 State st 9th Fl, Boston, MA, USA, 
       02109, (617)2270730|nSAN 200-2205 
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100 1  Williams, Paige,|d1966-|eauthor. 
245 14 The dinosaur artist :|bobsession, betrayal, and the quest 
       for Earth's ultimate trophy /|cPaige Williams. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bHachette Books,|c[2018] 
264  4 |c©2018 
300    xxii, 410 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-381) and 
       index. 
505 0  Introduction : origins -- Part I -- "Superb Tyrannosaurus 
       skeleton" -- Land O' Lakes -- Garcia, king of the Ice Age 
       -- Dive -- Deal -- Tucson -- Big game -- Middleman in 
       Japan -- Hollywood headhunters -- Part II -- The warrior 
       and the explorer -- The Flaming Cliffs -- Market 
       conditions -- "Go Gobi" -- The ghost of Mary Anning -- The
       last dinosaur -- The President's predicament -- United 
       States of America v. One Tyrannosaurus bataar skeleton -- 
       Part III -- Raid! -- Verdict -- Tarbomania -- Petersburg 
       low -- The dinosaur bus -- Epilogue. 
520    "In 2012, a New York auction catalogue made an unusual 
       offering: "a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton." In fact, Lot 
       49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar, a close 
       cousin to T. rex, the most famous animal that ever lived. 
       The fossils now on display in Manhattan had been unearthed
       in Mongolia, some 6,000 miles away. At 8 feet high and 24 
       feet long, the specimen was spectacular, and the final 
       gavel signaled a winning bid of well over $1 million. Eric
       Prokopi, a thirty-eight-year-old Floridian, was the man 
       who had brought this extraordinary skeleton to market. A 
       onetime swimmer who spent his teenage years searching for 
       shark teeth, Prokopi's singular obsession with fossils 
       generated a thriving business hunting, preparing, and 
       selling specimens, to clients ranging from natural history
       museums to avid private collectors like actor Leonardo 
       DiCaprio. But there was a problem. This time, facing 
       financial strain, had Prokopi gone too far? As the T. 
       bataar went to auction, a network of paleontologists 
       alerted the government of Mongolia to the eye-catching 
       lot. As an international custody battle ensued, fueled by 
       geopolitics, Prokopi watched as his own world unraveled. 
       In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, The Dinosaur Artist 
       is a stunning work of narrative journalism about humans' 
       relationship with natural history and a seemingly 
       intractable conflict between science and commerce. A story
       that stretches from Florida's Land O' Lakes to the Gobi 
       Desert, The Dinosaur Artist illuminates the history of 
       fossil collecting--a wildly popular, yet sometimes murky, 
       risky business, populated by eccentrics and obsessives, 
       where the lines between poacher and hunter, collector and 
       smuggler, enthusiast and opportunist, can easily blur. In 
       her first book, ... writer Paige Williams has given 
       readers an irresistible story that spans continents, 
       cultures, and millennia as she examines the question of 
       who, ultimately, owns the past."--Dust jacket. 
600 10 Prokopi, Eric. 
600 14 Prokopi, Eric. 
650  0 Tyrannosaurus bataar. 
650  0 Fossils|xCollection and preservation|xMoral and ethical 
       aspects. 
650  0 Fossils|xCollection and preservation|zMongolia. 
650  0 Fossils|xCollectors and collecting|zFlorida. 
650  0 Tyrannosaurus|zMongolia. 
650  4 Fossils|xCollection and preservation. 
650  4 Fossils|xCollection and preservation|zMongolia. 
650  4 Tyrannosaurus. 
650  7 Fossils|xCollection and preservation.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00933168 
650  7 Tyrannosaurus.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01160096 
650  7 HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SCIENCE / Paleontology.|2bisacsh 
650  7 TRUE CRIME / Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions.|2bisacsh 
651  7 Mongolia.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01208752 
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