Louis Jacobs has produced a most interesting book, which will certainly give the reader a feel for dinosaur hunting in some exotic and unusual places. Many books have been written on the collecting of dinosaurs in North America, but this book is very different, and I found it refreshing, fun, and informative. -- Richard E. Leakey, Director, Kenya Wildlife Service Splendid book. If you like dinosaurs, this is for you. If you enjoy reading engaging stories of life in the field, this is for you. And if you care to reflect a bit on the personal impact of the West on the developing world, and-as important-of the developing world on us, this is certainly for you. It's a most engaging read. -- David Pilbeam, Harvard University Original, delightfully entertaining, accurate, and stimulating... In his warm and witty style, Lou Jacobs has made a significant contribution to the demystification of science. -- Nicholas Hotton III, Research Curator, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
List of Illustrations
Introduction to the Johns Hopkins Edition
Chapter 1. The Forgotten Dinosaurs of Africa
Chapter 2. Tahiti Without Salt
Chapter 3. Journals From the Ground
Chapter 4. The Roaming Titan Lizards
Chapter 5. African Dinosaurs, Before and After
Chapter 6. The Crocodile of Carnival
Chapter 7. For One Tooth
Chapter 8. Other Neighbors
Chapter 9. A Living Dinosaur?
Chapter 10. The Good of Dinosaurs
Expedition Members
Suggestion for Further Reading
Index
Louis Jacobs, formerly a visiting scholar at Harvard, teaches at Southern Methodist University and is president of the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man.
A literary effort of real consequence, a book that informs and entertains, but at the same time is pleasing to the eye and to the ear... One closes Lou Jacobs' book with the wish that it did not have to come to an end... [because] one has been to Africa with Lou and surveyed the passing scene through his amused, discerning eye. -- Edwin H. Colbert Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
A literary effort of real consequence, a book that informs and entertains, but at the same time is pleasing to the eye and to the ear... One closes Lou Jacobs' book with the wish that it did not have to come to an end... [because] one has been to Africa with Lou and surveyed the passing scene through his amused, discerning eye. -- Edwin H. Colbert Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Excavating in the highlands above Africa's Lake Malawi, paleontologist Jacobs unearthed the remains of a strange crocodile and three dinosaurs, one of which provided a missing link in the fossil record. He uses the story of his discoveries to depict Africa as it was 100 million years ago, when the continent was breaking away from the rest of the world land mass. Taking readers on-site to observe excavation and field work, he elucidates the process of dinosaur identification and the intricacies of their anatomies. Later, visiting a fossil bed in Cameroon's Koum Basin, he notes that the African fossil record covers a great deal of dinosaur history but is frustratingly spotty and incomplete. His own research with the titanosaurid sauropod Malawi-saurus , which chronicles an unbroken 79-million-year history, fills in some of the blanks. This fine book is an important volume for dinosaur fans. ( Feb. )
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