The Bone Museum: Travels in the lost worlds of dinosaurs and birds by Wayne
Grady, Four Walls Eight Windows, US$24.95, ISBN 1568582048
THERE are surprisingly few bones in The Bone Museum. Judging from
his narrative, Canadian nature writer Wayne Grady is more interested in
palaeontologists, the countryside, and the hunt for fossils than in the
dinosaurs themselves.
There are compensations for this. Like the American writer and essayist of
geology John McPhee, Grady writes elegantly, and insightfully about interesting
people. The two leading palaeontologists in his narrative, Phil Currie and
Rodolfo Coria, are vital figures. They have both made tremendous…
