Michael Novacek
Over the past six years Michael Novacek, the Provost of Science at the American Museum of Natural History, has led a team of international scientists to the Gobi Desert on the greatest dinosaur expedition of the late 20th century. Closed to the ... [... more]
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Dinosaur Hunters: Secrets Of The Gobi Desert
 Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Binding: DVD EAN: 0727994750468 Format: NTSC MPN: DG75046D Release Date: 2003-04-08 Theatrical Release Date: 1997 UPC: 727994750468 [... more]
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The Desert Road to Turkestan
What a great book!: I finished reading Owen Lattimore's The Desert Road to Turkestan yesterday, and rarely have I been so completely, thoroughly and delightedly sandbagged by a book. I spent all day in bed absorbed in Lattimore's travels with a Chinese [... more]
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The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
From Amazon.com: Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to the Siberian Gulag along with other captive Poles, Finns, Ukranians, Czechs, Greeks, and even a few English, [... more]
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Treasure Of Khan
The best Cussler collaboration to date!: I loved all the early Dirk Pitt books, but have not been a fan of all the recent collaborations, I did however like Cussler's teaming with Debrule. "Treasure of Kahan" brings back the fun and thrills of [... more]
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Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs: A Photobiography of ...
Roy Chapman Andrews: A Real-Life Indiana Jones: Real-life is usually so much more interesting than the movies, and Ann Bausum's wonderful photobiography of Roy Chapman Andrews - Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs - will be ample evidence of this to any young [... more]
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Antipodes: Stories
a small, well crafted volume: I came across this slim volume while looking around for short story collections and was pleasantly surpised by the quality of Padilla's writing. This collection reminded me of some of Italo Calvino's stories, with shifts [... more]
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The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and ...
From Amazon.co.uk: Since fossils have presumably existed for millions of years, why don't we see much palaeontological thought from ancient writers? Classics scholar Adrienne Mayor suggests that we can in fact learn much about the Greek and Roman [... more]
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Dragon Hunter
From Amazon.com: Roy Chapman Andrews was never much of a scholar, and anyone who looked at his high school report card might have foretold an undistinguished future. But, from an early age, Andrews's ambitions lay outside the social norm; an ardent fan [... more]
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Polar Dream: The First Solo Expedition by a Woman and ...
This Real Life Story Gave Me Back My Life: Without a snowmobile, dog team or resupply, Helen Thayer walked and skied alone to the Magnetic North Pole with her Eskimo dog Charlie. This true story of the trust that bonded woman and canine companion [... more]
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Penguin Classics Guide
Simple oriental tale: The guide is a very much appreciated work of RK Narayan. There aren't any twists in the plot. It is a simple smooth story with a great climax. Good for light reading but provides insight into the indian thought process. There has [... more]
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National Geographic Video:Dino
From Amazon.com: In 1922 American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews led the first Western archeological expedition into Mongolia's Gobi Desert and uncovered one of the richest dinosaur graveyards in the world. A changing political climate forced him to [... more]
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