The Monster's Bones
The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
by David K. Randall
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Pub Date Jun 07 2022 | Archive Date May 31 2022
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Description
A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America’s most-loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record.
In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York’s struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the museum’s success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown discovers Tyrannosaurus Rex in the Montana wilderness, he single-handedly saves the museum from irrelevancy and helps turn dinosaurs from a biological oddity into a beloved part of culture.
Vivid and engaging, The Monster’s Bones journeys from prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of New York City. With a wide-ranging cast of robber barons, eugenicists, and opportunistic cowboys, New York Times best-selling author David K. Randall reveals how a monster of a bygone era ignited a new understanding of our planet and our place within it.
About the Author: David K. Randall is a senior reporter at Reuter's. He is the New York Times best-selling author of Dreamland, The King and Queen of Malibu, and Black Death at the Golden Gate.
Advance Praise
"The Monster's Bones is such an irresistibly good read and such a compellingly smart book. David K. Randall takes his tale of fossil-hunting and museum building and deepens it into something more—a story in which both the long-vanished dinosaurs and the humans who discover them are equally dangerous in their own unique ways." - Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Poisoner's Handbook
"A spectacular yarn of science and adventure, The Monster's Bones takes us back to the birth of paleontology, when a Kansas farm boy made the find of a century—and a wealthy racist in New York tried to exploit it. Randall has excavated a classic, a story every bit as big and head-spinning as the T. Rex at its center." - Jason Fagone, best-selling author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes
"Barnum Brown and T. rex, the dinosaur he literally exploded from the depths of time from remote Montana quarries, lie at the heart of David K. Randall's paleontological thriller that is a tell-all of how the man came to be, a fortuitous journey from a small town in Kansas to the halls of America's greatest natural history museum in New York. I read the volume spellbound... Readers are taken back in time to feel the grit and drama of the early fossil discoveries. And those stories serve to highlight the enduring promise of paleontology—the chance to be the next Barnum Brown." - Paul Sereno, Ph.D., Paleontologist, University of Chicago
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781324006534 |
| PRICE | $27.95 (USD) |
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