Chris Cox, a librarian’s Reviews > Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World > Status Update

I picked this book up because it made me think of those Sinclair pamphlets with the dinosaurs in it I got when I was a kid.

Maybe I could recapture that feeling decades later!

The book wasn't exactly what I expected, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. It does have a great deal in it about 19th century dinosaur bone discoveries, but also had quite a lot in it about other discoveries about fossils and other discoveries that shook up the world of society...and religion.

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party is well researched and written in a way for anyone to follow. You will learn or re-learn the names of Mary Anning, Georges Cuvier, Richard Owen, Gideon Mantell and Charles Darwin. You will probably come away looking at how animals look underneath their skin in a new way.

Recommended highly and I liked the author enough to check out his book on the Rosetta Stone as well.