Audio only
The Dragon Seekers
How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for DarwinBy Christopher McGowanNarrated by Stuart LangtonLength8h 11m
About this audiobook
In the midst of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary group of scientists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric world—a world that they had to piece together from the fossilized, fragmentary remains of animals no one had ever seen.
These nineteenth-century pioneers were an eccentric lot that included a working-class woman, an Oxford professor with a theatrical bent, a crisis-ridden country doctor who was never quite accepted among London’s scientific elite, and an expert anatomist who once dissected a rhino in his living room.
These were the Dragon Seekers, the people who brought the myths to life and whose work, within a populace raised on a literal interpretation of Genesis, laid the groundwork for the revolutionary ideas of Darwin.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature
Length8 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byStuart Langton
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateDec 11, 2008
LanguageEnglish
Life On Earth 40th Anniversary EditionSir David Attenborough12h 27m$29 · $0.00
BeyondStephen Walker15h 39m$33 · $0.00
A Brief History of IntelligenceMax S. Bennett12h 18m$29 · $0.00
The Collected Works of John MuirJohn Muir95h 45m$2 · $0.00
LiftoffEric Berger9h 4m$29 · $0.00
Distant SkiesMelissa A. Priblo Chapman12h 39m$23
ApolloCharles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox18h 15m$30
The Story of BirdsSteve Brusatte11h 49m$29 · $0.00
Black Earth WisdomLeah Penniman11h 54m5 (1)$8 · $0.00
Crystals for BeginnersKaren Frazier3h 49m$20
What If? 10th Anniversary EditionRandall Munroe7h 29m$23
Nikola Tesla - Ultimate Collection: 70+ Scientific Works, Lectures & EssaysNikola Tesla48h 43m$2 · $0.00
Total Cat MojoJackson Galaxy10h 13m$23 · $0.00
Earth at NightNational Aeronautics and Space Administration2h 26m$1 · $0.00
My Life Among the UnderdogsTia Torres5h 51m$24 · $0.00
What It Takes to Save a LifeKwane Stewart6h$24 · $0.00
Pastoral SongJames Rebanks8h 35m$26 · $0.00
How Stella Learned to TalkChristina Hunger7h$24 · $0.00
Craig & FredCraig Grossi8h 6m$26 · $0.00
Celebrating BirdsNatalia Rojas, Ana Maria Martinez6h 47m$24 · $0.00
You may also like
Experiments and Observations on Electricity Made at Philadelphia in America (Annotated)Benjamin Franklin4h 2m$2 · $0.00
A Manual of the Antiquity of ManJ. P. MacLean4h 43m$1 · $0.00
The Letter of Petrus Peregrinus on the Magnet, A.D. 1269De Maricourt active 13th century Pierre1h 41m$2 · $0.00
Impressionist painting: its genesis and developmentWynford Dewhurst4h 11m$1 · $0.00
Spinning TopsJohn Perry1h 31m$2 · $0.00
Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly BodiesDavid P. Todd11h 5m$2 · $0.00
Practical Exercises in Elementary MeteorologyRobert DeCourcy Ward7h 16m$2 · $0.00
Soap-Bubbles and the Forces Which Mould ThemC. V. Boys2h 16m$2 · $0.00
An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation"S. Laing2h 48m$2 · $0.00
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific EssaysJohn Joly8h 31m$1 · $0.00
Studies in Spermatogenesis (Vol.1&2) (Annotated)N. M. Stevens3h 38m$2 · $0.00
The Genus PinusGeorge Russell Shaw4h 11m$2 · $0.00
The Age of WonderSir Richard Holmes21h 27m$32
Charles Lyell and Modern GeologyT. G. Bonney6h 48m$1 · $0.00
The Rise and Progress of PalaeontologyThomas Henry Huxley35m$2 · $0.00
Introduction to the Study of Palæontological BotanyJohn Hutton Balfour3h 4m$2 · $0.00
CrystalsA. E. H. Tutton8h 23m$2 · $0.00
The Coming of EvolutionJohn W. Judd2h 16m$2 · $0.00
India and Indian EngineeringJ. G. Medley3h 24m$2 · $0.00
The Coal Measures Amphibia of North AmericaRoy Lee Moodie9h 56m$2 · $0.00