- 1985 edition. 319 pages
- Published by Bonanza Books, New York.
- Hardcover with dust jacket. Black boards. Format C.
- Very good condition. Minor edge creases to dust jacket. Small owner stamp on free front end paper.
Illustrated with black and white photographs, line drawings, charts and diagrams. Indexed.
In his wildest flights of fancy, in his most fearful nightmares, man has never been able to conjure up a more bizarre creature than that prehistoric dragon, the dinosaur.
These 'terrible lizards' emerged on earth 175,000,000 years ago: they disappeared completely 100,000,000 years later, leaving little more than some fosilized bones and petrified footprints to mark their passing. During the last century and a half, a great deal has been learned about dinosaurs - their appearances, their habits, their environment - because a few dedicated men and women have gathered their reamins, pieced together their shattered bones, and unraveled the stories of their lives.
This fascinating book is not only about the Age of Reptiles and the lumbering dragons who inhabited that eerie world but it is also about some of those interesting people who, millions of years later, found and identified their remains. Here is both the drama and the humor involved in searching for their bones; here, too, is the painstaking detective work that goes into reconstructing their shaps and environment.
And as the bits of the great prehistoric puzzle are put into place, the reader will see how the fossils from the Age of Reptiles confirm the belief that the simpler forms of life develop into the more complex, and how, traveling the long road of evolution, man himself has come to be what he is today.
The Day of the Dinosaur is an exciting book to read and has an extensive research, bibliography, index and numerous illustrations to make it an excellent reference work.
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