Dig: A Personal Prehistoric Journey by Sam Chiarelli
Dig follows Sam on a cross-country Amtrak trip with a final destination of a fossil dig in Colorado. Buried within these pages are encounters in museums big and small, prep labs, robotic dinosaur parks, and prehistoric themed hotels — and interviews with many of Sam’s childhood heroes: paleontologists, artists, and others who’ve dedicated their lives to revealing the distant past.
Part science and nature adventure and part memoir, this book is all dinosaur.
Dig follows Sam on a cross-country Amtrak trip with a final destination of a fossil dig in Colorado. Buried within these pages are encounters in museums big and small, prep labs, robotic dinosaur parks, and prehistoric themed hotels — and interviews with many of Sam’s childhood heroes: paleontologists, artists, and others who’ve dedicated their lives to revealing the distant past.
Part science and nature adventure and part memoir, this book is all dinosaur.
Dig follows Sam on a cross-country Amtrak trip with a final destination of a fossil dig in Colorado. Buried within these pages are encounters in museums big and small, prep labs, robotic dinosaur parks, and prehistoric themed hotels — and interviews with many of Sam’s childhood heroes: paleontologists, artists, and others who’ve dedicated their lives to revealing the distant past.
Part science and nature adventure and part memoir, this book is all dinosaur.
What People Are Saying About Dig:
“A prehistoric journey from the heart, Sam Chiarelli’ s travelogue will awaken your inner child and make you fall in love with dinosaurs all over again.”
Steve Brusatte, paleontologist at University of Edinburgh and New York Times best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
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''Essential reading for the dino-curious, and anyone who's ever chased after a dream (or wanted to).''
Helen Scales, author of Eye of the Shoal and Spirals in Time
Book Details:
ISBN: 9780999429983
Paperback, Trim 6x9
272 pages; includes photo insert
About the author:
Sam Chiarelli has an MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University and blogs at This Day in Dinosaurs. He’s been a dinophile for more than 25 years and has dug for Mesozoic fossils in New Jersey and Colorado. Chiarelli resides in Pittston, Pennsylvania.