num_pages: 380
description: "A superb introduction to paleontology as it really is and how it is done, from fish to dinosaur, bird, and mammal." ―Edward O. Wilson Michael Novacek, a renowned paleontologist who has discovered important fossils on virtually every continent, is an authority on patterns of evolution and on the relationships among extinct and extant organisms. Time Traveler is his captivating account of how his boyhood enthusiasm for dinosaurs became a lifelong commitment to vanguard science. Novacek writes of the alluring perils of fieldwork with affection and discernment, and he illuminates the most exciting issues in paleontology today.
language: English
title: Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia
titlecomplete: Time Traveler: In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia
genres: Adventure, History, Palaeontology, Biography, Science, Dinosaurs, Memoir, Nonfiction, Natural History
ratings_count: 110
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux