From Siberian Prisoner to Dinosaur Egg Detective

From Siberian Prisoner to Dinosaur Egg Detective

The Epic Odyssey of Karl Hirsch

Lockley, Martin; Spilka, Bernard

Indiana University Press

10/2024

244

Dura

Inglês

9780253070432

15 a 20 dias

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Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: Headlong into History
1. Motherless Child
2. Waenderlust
3. War Clouds
PART II. Prisoner of Fate
4. A Journey of a Thousand Miles
5. Retreat, Recuperation, and Redeployment
6. Siberia
7. Second Birthday
PART III. Wild West Wanderings
8. The New, Ancient, and Wild West
9. Do It Yourself Paleontology
10. Eggs, Explanations, and the Shell Game
11. Light on the Subject
PART IV. Man of Letters
12. Dragons, Dinosaurs, Maternity, and the Dinosaurian Big Time
13. O is for Ovum, Oeuf, and "Ooh"
14. From the Gobi Desert to Egg Mountain
15. From Russia and China with Love
16. A Man of Letters
Epilogue: Egg Money
Appendix A: Bibliography of Karl F. Hirsch
Appendix B: Announcement of the Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters for Karl F. Hirsch
Appendix C: Karl Hirsch's Response on Receipt of the Harrell. L. Strimple Award from the Paleontological Society
Appendix D: Fossils Named in Honor of Karl F. Hirsch
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biography, scientist, Second World War, University of Colorado, Germany, paleontology, fossil