THE DINOSAUR ARTIST

The Dinosaur Artist is a stunning work of narrative journalism about humans' relationship with natural history, and about a seemingl y intractable conflict between science and commerce. A story that stretches from Florida's Land O' Lakes to the Gobi Desert, The Din osaur Artist illuminates the history of fossil collecting - a murky, sometimes risky business, populated by eccentrics and obsessive s, where the lines between poacher and hunter, collector and smuggler, and enthusiast and opportunist can easily blur.