Oh my goodness. What fun!
This book was given to me by a friend at a time when I needed an easy distraction.
The story, set in the American west of 1876, felt cinematic. I could envision in my mind all the standard western movie scenes, from the train ride, to the saloons and the frontier towns.
There were wonderful characters, leading separate expeditions to the badlands of the Montana Territory, searching for dinosaur bones.
I found it interesting how the science of the day was so controversial in the context of Charles Darwin's revelations from his book On the Origins of the Species
Paleontology was a very new branch of science and the search for discovery was a "wild west" of it's own.
The book as an easy read, felt fresh and was well worth reading.
Michael Crichton's website - http://www.michaelcrichton.com/
 |
| Michael Crichton |
