The Mystery of the Mammoth Bones and How It Was Solved

by James Cross Giblin

Book Overview

Describes the efforts of the artist, museum curator, and self-taught paleontologist, Charles Willson Peale, to excavate, study, and display the bones of a prehistoric creature that is later named... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006027493X
• ISBN13: 9780060274931
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 97 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

MASTODON FIND 2000

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