Review by wordswoods - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

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4.0

This book was GREAT.
Let me explain.

For a very niche science book about dinosaurs, it is very accessible. I have no prior knowledge about geology or paleontology except for the basic info you go through in high school (in NL at least) and still, everything was explained in a way that I could get it without feeling belittled by overly long explanations. Really really well done!
Obviously, this is a non-fiction book about the history of dinosaurs. So you have to be vaguely interested in this topic to make it through 350 pages of it, but it was really interesting! It alternates storytelling "Then the Sauropad saw..." with scientific facts, Steve's stories about what interested him during his childhood and his early years and colorful descriptions of all these different locals and researchers that he meets over the years.
The drawings of the dinosaurs at the beginning of the chapters are amazing.

Yeah I think that's it.

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