Dawning of the Dinosaurs
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1994
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551091006
- Publish Date
- Jan 1994
- List Price
- $13.95
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Description
Author of Tidal Life and Against Darkness and Storm, naturalist Harry Thurston has spent his life exploring the mysteries of the Bay of Fundy. Over the last decade, he has followed the major fossil discoveries made along Fundy's dramatic coastal cliffs. The result is Dawning of the Dinosaurs, which throws new light on the rise and eventual demise of the dinosaurs.
About the author
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Harry Thurston is the author of several collections of poetry and twelve nonfiction books, including Tidal Life: A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy, winner of three non-fiction prizes in the Atlantic region; The Nature of Shorebirds: Nomads of the Wetlands; and A Place between the Tides: A Naturalist's Reflections on the Salt Marsh, which received the 2005 Sigrid Olson Nature Writing Award in the United States and was shortlisted for the 2005 BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. He has also written for such magazines as Audubon, Canadian Geographic, and National Geographic. Thurston lives in Nova Scotia.
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