Beyond Fiction Book Club - Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party by Edward Dolnick

Join us to discuss this month's Beyond Fiction Book Club selection, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World by Edward Dolnick. Books will be available to check out at the Adult Help Desk.  If you need help acquiring a book, please reach out to Jill Morino at jmorino@wauclib.org.  

We look forward to reading and discussing with you!

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World is a historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a new understanding of human history.

In the early 1800s the world was a safe and cozy place. But then a 12-year-old farm boy in Massachusetts stumbled upon a row of fossilized three-toed footprints the size of dinner plates—the first dinosaur tracks ever found. Soon, in England, Victorians unearthed enormous bones—bones that reached as high as a man’s head.

Celebrated storyteller and historian Edward Dolnick leads readers through a compelling true adventure as the paleontologists of the first half of the 19th century puzzled their way through the fossil record to create the story of dinosaurs we know today.

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