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Author Cadbury, Deborah.

Title Terrible lizard : the first dinosaur hunters and the birth of a new science / Deborah Cadbury.

Publication Info. New York : Holt, 2001.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  560.92 C113    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description x, 374 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Published simultaneously in Great Britain.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. An ocean turned to stone -- 2. The world in a pebble -- 3. Toast of mice and crocodiles for tea -- 4. The subterranean forest -- 5. The giant Saurians -- 6. The young contender -- 7. Satan's creatures -- 8. The geological age of reptiles -- 9. Nature, red in tooth and claw -- 10. Nil desperandum -- 11. Dinosauria -- 12. The arch-hater -- 13. Dinomania -- 14. Nature without God?
Subject Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852.
Owen, Richard, 1804-1892.
Paleontology -- England -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 0805067728
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