Book Description
From an essay on Charles R. Knight, the most influential of all artists to re-create extinct animals, to a "dinosaurian" prank posted over the Internet; from prehistoric scripts for comic books to writings for professional paleontological journals, author Don Glut has turned his peculiar fascination into a career. For nearly four decades, the author has written articles about dinosaurs, people in the paleontology field, extinct mammals, early humans, and monsters (some real, others hatched solely in the imagination), all relating in some way to creatures from the distant past. In the present work, Glut has brought together many of these articles, editing, updating, and supplementing where necessary, as well as providing some new writings. Each article is prefaced with introductory notes giving an historical perspective and comments on the origin of the piece, and providing continuity from one article to the next. The first section, "Paleo Words," includes essays about the science of paleontology; the second, "Personal Petroglyphs," concerns topics with which Glut was personally involved; and finally, "Mesozoic Media" contains media-related topics. The text will fascinate all who share a "prehistoric" interest.
