Dinosaur Dreams

A Father and Daughter in Search of America's Prehistoric Past

B.J. Hollars (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2025
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3771-2 (ISBN)

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In the summer of 2023, one of the hottest on record, B.J. Hollars and his nine-year-old daughter Ellie embarked on a two-thousand-mile road trip to complete the Montana Dinosaur Trail, a fourteen-stop trail consisting of museums, state parks, and dinosaur dig sites throughout a state known for its Mesozoic-era fossil record. Throughout their two-week journey, they dig fossils, learn from amateur and professional paleontologists, and forge a bond even stronger than the dinosaurs they love.

Join B.J. and Ellie on a road trip that spans not just miles but millennia. With every stop, they deepen their understanding of dinosaurs, extinction, and what the fossil record might teach us about how best to preserve our planetary home. Together, father and daughter strive to answer the vital question of our age: Can we humans evolve fast enough to ensure our own survival?

Charming, thought-provoking, and full of discovery, Dinosaur Dreams is a time-traveling adventure that reminds us of what truly matters: the bonds we forge, the world we inherit, and the future we fight to protect.

B.J. Hollars is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is the author or editor of more than fifteen books, including Go West, Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail (Bison, 2021) and Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country (Nebraska, 2019).

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

Cast of Characters

Prologue

1. A Bone to Pick

2. Embrace the Evolution

3. Dollars for Dinos

4. Tires Make Good Neighbors

5. Where the Deer and the Dinosaurs Play

6. Of Mammoths and Men

7. Maternal Instinct

8. Hit the Road for Jack

9. Leonardo and Matilda

10. Amateur Hour

11. Of Faith and Fossils

12. Take Me Home, Country Road

Epilogue

Notes on the Sources

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	08.08.2025
Zusatzinfo	26 photographs, 2 illustrations, 1 map
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA
ISBN-10	1-4962-3771-4 / 1496237714
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-3771-2 / 9781496237712
Zustand	Neuware