Moa: the Dramatic Story behind the Discovery of a Giant Bird Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Moa: the Dramatic Story behind the Discovery of a Giant Bird Book

The intriguing story of the controversy and personality clashes behind the discovery of the moa in the nineteenth century. In 1839, on the basis of a single fragment of bone from the other side of the world, the great English anatomist Richard Owen reached the conclusion that it came from an unknown gigantic flightless bird. Many initially thought Owen's claim preposterous. Owen's piece of bone is the starting point for Richard Wolfe's fascinating story behind one of the nineteenth century's great natural history discoveries.Read More

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  • 0143018736
  • 9780143018735
  • Richard Wolfe
  • 5 August 2003
  • Penguin Books (NZ)
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 250
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