{"product_id":"monsters-bones-hardcover","title":"MONSTER'S BONES (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eScience Friday\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book to Read This Summer\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America’s most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York’s struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the museum’s success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil hunter Barnum Brown.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils in the Montana wilderness, forever changing the world of paleontology, Osborn sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy. With four-foot-long jaws capable of crushing the bones of its prey and hips that powered the animal to run at speeds of 25 miles per hour, the T. Rex suggests a prehistoric ecosystem more complex than anyone imagined. As the public turns out in droves to cower before this bone-chilling giant of the past and wonder at the mysteries of its disappearance, Brown and Osborn together turn dinosaurs from a biological oddity into a beloved part of culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVivid and engaging, \u003ci\u003eThe Monster’s Bones\u003c\/i\u003e journeys from prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan. With a wide-ranging cast of robber barons, eugenicists, and opportunistic cowboys, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author David K. Randall reveals how a monster of a bygone era ignited a new understanding of our planet and our place within it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Randall, David K","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337323311378,"sku":"9781324006534","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/10749733482659.jpg?v=1780441101","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/monsters-bones-hardcover","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}