Caves, Coprolites and Catastrophes: The Story of Pioneering Geologist and Fossil-Hunter William Buckland

by Allan Chapman

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‘An irresistible biography of one of Oxford’s most colourful characters.’ John Hedley Brooke

In 1824, William Buckland stood in front of the Royal Geological Society and told them about the bones he had been studying – the bones of an enormous, lizard-like creature, that he called Megalosaurus.

This was the first full account of a dinosaur.

During his life, Buckland would also demonstrate changes in the earth’s climate, champion health reform, wage war on slum landlords, and become infamous for eating everything he could, even a mummified human heart. Yet his name has been largely,...Read more
  • ISBN10 0281079501
  • ISBN13 9780281079506
  • Publish Date 20 August 2020
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 27 May 2023
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint SPCK Publishing
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English