The Illustrated Dinosaur Encyclopedia

by Dougal Dixon

Book Overview

A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated directory of dinosaurs, with informative description and introduction to palaeontology. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0831748338
• ISBN13: 9780831748333
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.

Customer Reviews

EXCELLENT BOOK

This book is exactly how I wanted it! Perfect condition and way more dinosaurs that I thought even existed. Kudos Dougal Dixon!

Excellent - Congratulations

Thanks for your product - it's too much good! It's satisfy my better expectatives... Have a good day...

Great effort marred by some sloppy illustrations

As another reviewer has pointed out, several illustrations are just not good (the Spinosaurs stuck out in particular for me). Most of the illustrations are excellent which makes you wonder why the poor ones are in there. Another problem is that certain dinosaurs get a full page treatment while some popular dinosaurs get the standard 1/4 page. The first part of the book has some excellent material and the dinosaur "tree" runs across several pages and is really fun to look at. But again, the full-page illustrations dividing the dinosaur eras look like they were drawn by a grade schooler. Still the book is great just for browsing through on a rainy day.

All you want to know Guide

This is an awesome book, highly recommended for any one who wants a guide to all known dinosaurs. The illustrations are very accurate to habitat and body structure. It goes beyond your basic dinosaurs. Great to use by itself or with other dinosaur guides. The information is also well put together with a lot of background about the names and species. If you love Dinosaurs, you deffinately want this in your collection. I use mine all the time for research for my art, very pleased with it.