The Bonehunters' Revenge Trade cloth - 1999

Details

• Title The Bonehunters' Revenge
• Author Wallace, David Rains
• Binding Trade Cloth
• Edition First Edition
• Language EN
• Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
• Date 1999-10-12
• ISBN 9780395850893

"David Rains Wallace's book, 'The Bonehunters' Revenge,' is a crisp, well-informed and fair-minded retelling of the Cope-Marsh 'bone war.' The characterizations of the two men are well drawn against a backdrop of 19th-century science, the opening of the American West and an expanding search for relics of past life, dinosaurs very much included." The New York Times

"Wallace's fast-moving and well-written book is sure to become the definitive work on the Marsh-Cope feud." -- John S. McIntosh, professor emeritus, Wesleyan University

"There is science, and then there are stories about scientists, and David Rains Wallace has dug up a great one. The Bonehunters' Revenge charts the great divide running through the collective culture of science: on the one side, scientific thought as indelible image of reason; on the other, the tangled mess of envy, paranoia, ambition, and bile in which some scientists find themselves mired. Few have been as throroughly mired, and for so long, as Wallace's obsessed pair of professors, Cope and Marsh. A fascinating tale of triumph, folly, and very old bones. -- John Vernon, author of A Book of Reasons

"David Rains Wallace is the best sort of nature writer - one unafraid to link natural history and the imagination. Like Peter Mattheissen, John McPhee, and Stephen Jay Gould, he asks large questions but knows the answer we find will always be too small. And he writes in a clear, graceful, completely non-technical style." The Chicago Sun-Times

"Wallace deftly recounts the famous and venomous fossil feud, how it damaged the lives and careers of both men and why it resonates today from the arid West's suburbia to the halls of academe." The San Francisco Chronicle