The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt - Softcover

Nothdurft, William E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375759794 ISBN 13: 9780375759796

Publisher: Random House USA Children's Books, 2003

Synopsis

Describes a 1999 expedition from the University of Pennsylvania designed to retrace the travels of Dr. Ernst Stromer who, in 1911, led an expedition to Egypt's Bahariya Oasis in the Sahara, where he discovered new species of dinosaurs, a discovery that was lost in 1944 during the Allied bombing of Munich. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

William Nothdurft is the author, coauthor, or ghostwriter of nearly a dozen books, including the award-winning Ghosts of Everest, about the search for the missing mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. Josh Smith served six years in the U.S. Army before getting his B.Sc. from the University of Massachusetts and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in paleontology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently an assistant professor at Washington University.
From the Hardcover edition.

From the Inside Flap:

In 1911, Dr. Ernst Stromer led an expedition to Egypt’s Bahariya Oasis in the Sahara and discovered four new species of dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus rex–size predator Spinosaurus. But tragically, all his work was incinerated in 1944 during the Allied bombing of Munich.

In 1999, Josh Smith, then a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, took his brilliant, precocious team to Egypt under the direction of world-renowned paleontologist Dr. Peter Dodson and blundered onto an archaeological site that yielded awe-inspiring results: all of Dr. Stromer’s early findings, and also an entirely new genus of dinosaur, Paralititan stromeri, one of the largest creatures ever to inhabit the planet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House USA Children's Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375759794
• ISBN 13: 9780375759796
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256