- Paperback: 352 pages
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0349113807
- ISBN-13: 978-0349113807
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 581 g
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Fascinating and original ... unforgettable SUNDAY TELEGRAPH "A rollicking good read" may be a red-cheeked literary cliche, but it fits Holland's energetic adventure perfectly THE TIMES An absorbing thriller ... the plot twists as unpredictably as you could hope for LITERARY REVIEW Has tremendous narrative pace and a series of fascinating settings. His best novel yet Charles Palliser, author of THE QUINCUNX
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Captain John Paley Dawkins, an English amateur palaeontologist, has staked his meagre inheritance upon an expedition set up by the enigmatic geologist Sheldon Prescott. He is at first wary of Prescott's intelligent, wilful and spoiled daughter Lilian, but they are soon forced together in a life-threatening quest for a pterodactyl; a creature whose existence is an old frontier superstition, fuelled by Indian legends of so-called Thunderbeasts. As scientific endeavour turns into a Darwinian struggle for survival, it is the bone hunters themselves who are being hunted... Set in 1878, THE BONE HUNTER takes us to New York, a city of corrupt cops, squabbling academicians and dazzlingly wealthy nouveaux riches. And in the bone fields of the West we pass from Como Bluff, scene of the most famous dinosaur finds of all time, through the badlands of Wyoming into the Big Horn Mountains and a magnificent, thrilling ending. Meticulously researched and vividly imagined, THE BONE HUNTER is a palaeontological treasure-hunt, bringing one of the most extraordinary episodes in Western history to life. It is also a tale of unexpected love and reconciliation.
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Probably the worst book I have ever read, Oct 25 2007
By B. Powell - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Bonehunter (Paperback)
I respect books and I have a large collection. In my opinion the worst that can be done to a book is to burn it. I struggled to the end of this poorly-written, inane, boring, pathetic nonsense and went into my garden and set it down. I placed two fire lighters on the cover and lit it. Astonishingly it only took a few minutes for it to turn to ashes.
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