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For want of wings : a bird with teeth and a dinosaur in the family / Jill Hunting.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunting, Jill, 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hunting, Jill, 1950-.
- Hunting, Jill.
- Marsh, Othniel Charles, 1831-1899.
- Marsh, Othniel Charles.
- Paleontologists--United States--Biography.
- Paleontologists.
- Fossils--Collection and preservation.
- Birds, Fossil.
- History.
- United States.
- Kansas.
- Birds, Fossil--History.
- Fossils--Collection and preservation--Kansas.
- Fossils.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 244 pages, 20 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Part detective history, part memoir, in this book Jill Hunting tells the story of her journey across the United States and into the realms of prehistory, national history, and family history as she follows her great-grandfather's trail to the fossil bed where he discovered an 83-million-year-old avian dinosaur"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Origins
- pt. II Strata
- pt. III The 1872 Yale College Scientific Expedition
- pt. IV I Go to Kansas
- pt. V Diaspora
- pt. VI I Return to Kansas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780806176611
- 080617661X
- OCLC:
- 1264753109
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