The Dinosaur Project: The Story of the Greatest Dinosaur Expedition Ever Mounted

by Wayne Grady

Book by Grady, Wayne

261 pages, Hardcover

First published June 15, 1993

About the author

Wayne Grady is the award-winning author of Emancipation Day, a novel of denial and identity. He has also written such works of science and nature as The Bone Museum, Bringing Back the Dodo, The Quiet Limit of the World, and The Great Lakes, which won a National Outdoor Book Award in the U.S. With his wife, novelist Merilyn Simonds, he co-authored Breakfast at the Exit Café: Travels Through America. And with David Suzuki he co-wrote the international bestseller Tree: A Life Story.

He has also translated fourteen works of fiction from the French, by such authors as Antonine Maillet, Yves Beauchemin, and Danny Laferrière. In 1989, he won the Governor General’s Award for his translation of Maillet’s On the Eighth Day. His most recent translation is of Louis Hamelin’s October 1970, published by House of Anansi Press in 2013.

Grady teaches creative writing in the optional-residency MFA program at the University of British Columbia. He and Merilyn Simonds live in the country north of Kingston, Ontario.

Reviews

[Katra · Rating 2 out of 5]

I need to say right off, that my two star rating was highly coloring by listening to an audio recording. The narrator was sub-par and mispronounced basic geologic terms such as deposition and stratigraphy. I found myself taking back to her quite a bit. Setting that aside, the book is a very detailed account of an incredible undertaking. Just go for the print version.