Janice - reviewed on 4/19/2018 + 628 more book reviews

This is a terrifically entertaining book. It's the story of a young man's adventures in the *really* wild west of 1876 Montana, as part of a party of scientists looking for fossils (still a new idea) in the wilderness and his adventures getting his "bones" back home. Crichton quotes from the historical characters' journals, which gives the book a sense of authenticity, but that doesn't slow the narrative down. It's a coming of age tale, both for the young man at its center and for the young science of paleontology, and it's a cracking great adventure. I really enjoyed it.

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