Hunting dinosaurs in the bad lands of the Red Deer River, Alberta, Canada (Illustrated, Annotated, and Expanded)

Hunting Giants: A Fossil Hunter's Epic JourneyIn 1917, legendary fossil hunter Charles H. Sternberg published this vivid firsthand account of hunting dinosaurs in the Alberta badlands—a world of searing heat, treacherous river crossings, and ancient bones emerging from cliffs that held secrets 75 million years old. Every expedition was a gamble: months of brutal labor might yield nothing, or reveal creatures no human eyes had ever seen.Sternberg's career spanned six decades of American paleontology's most dramatic era, a time when the map of prehistoric life was being rewritten with each new find. He worked for Edward Drinker Cope during the cutthroat Bone Wars, when rival teams raced to claim new species and paleontologists would destroy fossils rather than let competitors have them. He survived into the age of professional museum science and founded a dinosaur dynasty.INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE BONUS CONTENT:— The Sternberg Dynasty — Follow three generations of fossil hunters from Charles's first $300 commission from Cope to his sons' groundbreaking discoveries, including George's famous "fish-within-a-fish".— Dinosaurs Then & Now —Discover how dramatically our understanding has changed. What scientists believed about Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and Ankylosaurus in 1917 versus what we know today.— The Great Dinosaur Rush —The complete story of the Bone Wars rivalry between Cope and Marsh, the professionalization of American paleontology, and Sternberg's unique place in this turbulent history.Perfect for paleontology enthusiasts, history of science readers, adventure memoir fans, and anyone fascinated by the golden age of dinosaur discovery. Read more