ASIN: B0CJGT863R
Publisher: Liveright
Pages: 487
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT [UK], BLOOMBERG, AND WATERSTONES“Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age.When the twelve-year-old daughter of a British carpenter pulled some strange-looking bones from the country’s southern shoreline in 1811, few people dared to question that the Bible told the accurate history of the world. But Mary Anning had in fact discovered the “first” ichthyosaur, and over the next seventy-five years—as the science of paleontology developed, as Charles Darwin posited radical new theories of evolutionary biology, and as scholars began to identify the internal inconsistencies of the Scriptures—everything changed. Beginning with the archbishop who dated the creation of the world to ...
