The books in this section are usually hardcover and in decent condition, though we'll sometimes offer hard-to-find books in lesser condition at a reduced price. Though we often put images of the book with their original dust jackets, the copies here won't always (or even often) have them. If that is important to you, please call ahead or say so in the order comments!
From the dust jacket:
Take a giant step backward in time–back to almost a hundred million years ago, and what a strange world you are in, where monsters such as Tyrannosaurus rex, pictured on the jacket, standing 18 feet high and anything up to 50 feet long, wander through the swampy undergrowth among fernlike trees.
Here is the whole exciting story of what this odd world looked like, and of the earth as it had been still earlier before these strange-looking dinosaurs evolved, flourished, and died away.
How did man find out about this strange world that existed long before the dawn of history, before any written records were made?
The keys that unlocked these mysteries were fossils, but it is only recently that man has learned to interpret them.
In this deciphering boys and girls have played a part. William Smith began his researches as a boy with a hobby of collecting rocks; Mary Anning found her first fossilized skeleton of a hitherto unknown reptile when she was 12; and it was the 12-year-old Maria, daughter of Don Marcellino, who was the first person to see the astonishing cave paintings done by prehistoric man at Altamira in Spain.
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