Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway: An Epoch Tale of a Scientist and an Artist on the Ultimate 5,000-Mile Paleo Road Trip

Awards:   Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Travel Essays) 2008 Winner of Colorado Book Award (Nonfiction) 2008
Author:   Kirk Johnson ,  Ray Troll
Publisher:   Fulcrum Inc.,US
ISBN:  

9781555914516


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 October 2007
Recommended Age:   From 12 to 15 years
Format:   Paperback
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Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway: An Epoch Tale of a Scientist and an Artist on the Ultimate 5,000-Mile Paleo Road Trip


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  • Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Travel Essays) 2008
  • Winner of Colorado Book Award (Nonfiction) 2008

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""Would make anyone want to go on a fossil hunt.""-True West ""This is one of a tiny handful of books equally useful to adults and twelve-year olds. It's a funny, stealthily informative account of wandering dinosaur mavens meeting others of their kind, and also discovering ancient creatures and plants never seen before.""-Foreword Cruisin'the Fossil Freeway follows the most unusual travels of a paleontologist and artist as they drive across the West in search of fossils, encountering ""paleonerds"" like themselves and evidence of everything from suburban T. rexes to ancient fossilized forests.

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Author:   Kirk Johnson ,  Ray Troll
Publisher:   Fulcrum Inc.,US
Imprint:   Fulcrum Inc.,US
Dimensions:   Width: 25.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.061kg
ISBN:  

9781555914516


ISBN 10:   1555914519
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   01 October 2007
Recommended Age:   From 12 to 15 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Kirk R. Johnson is a paleobotanist and the Sant Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the host of two recent PBS series, Making North Americaand The Great Yellowstone Thaw.He has written ten books including Prehistoric Journey,Cruisin' The Fossil Freeway,and Ancient Wyoming. Ray Troll is an artist who has illustrated ten books, including Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway,Sharkabet, Rapture of the Deep,and Planet Ocean.He and his wife, Michelle, own and operate the Soho Coho Gallery inKetchikan, Alaska.

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