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The Dinosaur Artist - obsession, betrayal, and the quest for Earth's ultimate trophy (Paperback)
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The Dinosaur Artist - obsession, betrayal, and the quest for Earth's ultimate trophy (Paperback)
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New Yorker magazine staff writer Paige Williams delves into the
surprisingly perilous world of fossil collectors in this riveting
true tale. In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual
offering: 'a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton'. In fact, Lot 49135
consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar - a close cousin to the
more-famous T. rex - that had been unearthed in Mongolia. At 2.4
metres high and 7.3 metres long, the specimen was spectacular, and
the winning bid was over $1 million. Eric Prokopi, a 38-year-old
Floridian, had brought this extraordinary skeleton to market. A
one-time swimmer who'd spent his teenage years diving for shark
teeth, Prokopi's singular obsession with fossils fuelled a thriving
business, hunting for, preparing, and selling specimens to clients
ranging from natural-history museums to avid private collectors
like Leonardo DiCaprio. But had Prokopi gone too far this time? As
the T. bataar went to auction, a network of paleontologists alerted
the government of Mongolia to the eye-catching lot. An
international custody battle ensued, with Prokopi watching as his
own world unravelled. The Dinosaur Artist is a stunning work of
narrative journalism about humans' relationship with natural
history, and about a seemingly intractable conflict between science
and commerce. A story that stretches from Florida's Land O' Lakes
to the Gobi Desert, The Dinosaur Artist illuminates the history of
fossil collecting - a murky, sometimes risky business, populated by
eccentrics and obsessives, where the lines between poacher and
hunter, collector and smuggler, and enthusiast and opportunist can
easily blur.
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