Dinosaurs: A Journey to the Lost Kingdom

Blending history and fantasy, science and art, the story of how dinosaurs were discovered and reimagined comes to life through splendid illustrations in this handsome slipcased volume.Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, Tyrannosaurusthese exotic prehistoric creatures continue to fascinate more than 200 million years after they last roamed the earth. Dinosaur skeletons have been reconstituted, reconstructed, and interpreted by scientists and artists since the first fossils were uncovered near Caon City, Colorado, in 1877, sparking the Bone Wars. In 1907, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History mounted Dippy the Diplodocus, which sparked dinomania, igniting the imagination of popular culture and Hollywood. From the Morrison Formation to Montanas Hell Creek, and from Mongolias Gobi Desert to Argentinas Patagonia, new discoveries and excavations have uncovered a lost kingdom that has inspired myriad homages.This volume enriches our understanding of dinosaurs through rich visual iconographyfrom paintings, drawings, and sketches to new photography, film stills, reconstructed skeletons, and archival documentsalong with detailed descriptions and anecdotes from great nineteenthcentury explorers, artists, and writers such as Benjamin W. Hawkins, Charles R. Knight, Zdenek Burian, and Jules Verne, and from filmmakers including Walt Disney and Steven Spielberg.This book is published in partnership with the Musum National dHistoire Naturelle in Paris to coincide with a traveling exhibition of the exceptional Trix T. Rex and the international release of Jurassic World.