Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World

by Edward Dolnick

From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, a historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history.

In the early 1800s the world was a safe and cozy place. But then a twelve-year-old farm boy in Massachusetts stumbled on a row of fossilized three-toed footprints the size of dinner plates--the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 198219961X
• ISBN13: 9781982199616
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"