In 2000, Indiana University Press published “Dinosaurs of Darkness,” the now award-winning book by Dr. Thomas H. Rich and Dr. Patricia Vickers-Rich in which they recounted their search for and discovery of a number of remarkable fossil remains left by the dinosaurs that inhabited the Earth’s southern polar region one-hundred-twenty-million to one-hundred-million years ago.
As a specialist natural history book reviewer, the majority of books reaching me are ones I expected, having heard about their development from editors, publicists, or the authors themselves; but every so often one comes genuinely out of the proverbial left field. Such a unexpected recent arrival found its way to my desk…
No one, other than perhaps a specialist in the literature of the period, who has read Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection would likely ever say that its rich Victorian English prose was “an easy read.” However few would ever think to revise it into a more present-day form […]