- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: Barron's Educational Series; 1 edition (Feb 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0764155113
- ISBN-13: 978-0764155116
- Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 23.2 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,902,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is strange. If I was to consider only the images and the general part, it would have been first choice, five stars and the best I've seen. Rey's illustrations are simply breathtaking, especially the black and white drawings. Unfortunately Henry Gee goes a bit too far with his text... at one point it even says that Scipionyx was capable of mass-producing hatchlings (up to 4000 each MONTH!!!). All in all, is a book to have, because so precise dinosaur reconstructions are not so easy to find... and all you have to do is to care nothing about the hyperbolic text! Honestly a suggested buy, no matter if you are involved in dinosaurs as a palaeontologist or simply as afficionado!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
"One thing must be made clear from the start: this is a work of fiction". So reads the opening line, and it is the most (perhaps only) accurate statement in the book.
The text in this book is for the greater part, fantasy, and only very loosely based on science. This would not be an issue were this book not stocked alongside actual science volumes (it most surely belongs in the science-fiction section). Credence is given to text-author Henry Gee for having written 'in search of deep time' a popular-science book in which he vehemently argues against the reconstruction of animal behaviour from fossils. Quite why he is writing this text then, one can only wonder at.
This is contrasted by Luis Rey's striking artwork: characteristically vivid both in colour and in depiction of dinosaur behaviour. Personally I prefer his black and whites, but the pictures are certainly packed into this slim volume. Shame the book wasn't restricted to pictures only.
If you buy this book for someone, do it for the artwork. It isn't clear who the text is intended for, because it is far too complicated for children, and much too ridiculous for any normal adult.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
this book is mostly based on what scientists THINK dinosaurs lived like, Its illustrations how ever, are more upto date showing raptors and dinosaurs with feathers as it ahs been resently discovered
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