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Dragon Teeth Hardcover – June 1, 2017

by Michael Crichton (Author)
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Michael Crichton, the number one New York Times best-selling author of Jurassic Park, returns to the world of palaeontology in this recently discovered novel - a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting.

The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories, even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. Against this backdrop two palaeontologists pillage the Wild West for dinosaur fossils while deceiving and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars.

Into this treacherous territory plunges William Johnson, a Yale student with more privilege than sense. Determined to win a bet against his archrival, William has joined world-renowned palaeontologist Othniel Charles Marsh on his latest expedition. But Marsh becomes convinced that William is spying for his nemesis, Edwin Drinker Cope, and abandons him in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a locus of crime and vice.

Soon William joins forces with Cope and stumbles upon a discovery of historic proportions. The struggle to protect this extraordinary treasure, however, will test William's newfound resilience and pit him against some of the West's most dangerous and notorious characters....

2017 Michael Crichton (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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    June 1, 2017
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins Publishers; edition (June 1, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 295 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0008173060
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0008173067
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.28 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.26 x 1.26 x 9.45 inches
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MICHAEL CRICHTON the author of the groundbreaking novels Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, Disclosure, Prey, State of Fear, Sphere, Congo, Next and Micro among many others. His books have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide, have been translated into thirty-eight languages, and have provided the basis for fifteen feature films, most notably Jurassic Park. He directed Westworld, Coma, The Great Train Robbery and Looker, and also created the hit television series ER. Crichton remains the only writer to have a number one book, movie, and TV show in the same year.

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Although I wasn't too fond of the ending, this wraps some history around an exciting tale of early paleontology in the wild west.
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KL
5.0 out of 5 stars Cope vs Marsh: The Dinosaur Wars
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2024
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We take fossils for granted. Preschoolers battle their plastic T-rexes as though such creatures have always been accepted as commonplace. We see dinosaur fossils displayed in museums and give little thought as to how they got there. Few remember a court case that decided the custody of the T-rex known as Sue only a couple of decades ago. Even fewer know the story of the battle between two early paleontologists digging up dinosaurs on the Montana plains the same summer Custer and his men died only a couple of hundred miles away.

Michael Crichton, yes, the guy who gave us the monsters of Jurassic Park, spins this riveting fictional yarn of a Yale student who, on a bet, trades a summer trip to Europe for a dinosaur dig in the West. The dueling scientists, really angry Indians, perfidious mates, outlaws, gunfighters, and no less than the Earl brothers themselves, fill the adventures of young William Johnson. He singlehandedly returns with 10 crates of Copes' treasured fossils and a tale that is a worthy read.

I highly recommend this adventure of science in the Old West. A fun read!
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Richard McCaysville
4.0 out of 5 stars First Michael Crichton in many years
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2024
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This book was fun. The last of his books I read was The Andromeda Strain! This was different, but fun and I think informing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Of course five stars...and more
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2023
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What to say about a man who was forever writing his ,"next" book. You might remember...The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, Jurassic Park, Disclosure, Prey, State of Fear, and Next, among many others.

This story is part fiction and part true history with an adventure in the late 1800' s dealing with two professors of paleontology from Yale, who hate each other and will stoop to unimaginable lows that border on insanity.

Consider that no one knew of dinosaurs in 1824. " would God make something and then make them extinct? " .was the thoughts during that time so the finding of huge bones and teeth were a mystery.

My first encounter with the late Michael Crichton was The Great Train Robbery and I loved every word. Since then he has been my favorite author with his talent of placing the reader right in the middle of the action.

They is nothing " flowery " and nothing is " over explained" just outstanding writing and a fantastic story.
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lisaleo (Lisa Yount)
3.0 out of 5 stars OK historical novel, not a thriller
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2018
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If you want to have any chance of enjoying this novel, forget everything you probably think of when you hear the name Michael Crichton. Although the story certainly includes some perilous moments, there is no nail-biting tension and no science-fictional menaces: no live dinosaurs or killer robots charging out of the bushes. Instead, it’s a pretty decent historical novel based on real events: the rivalry between America’s two top paleontologists in the 1870s, Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope, and their digging up dinosaur bones in Montana in the days when that area was still very much the Wild West.

I knew about those real people and events, so I particularly enjoyed the first half of the book, which focuses on them. During that half I could well believe that the novel was what it claimed to be, a lightly fictionalized account based on the diary of someone who actually took part in the Cope and Marsh digs. (In a way it was, according to the author’s afterword, but the account was from Charles Sternberg, mentioned briefly in the story, not the fictional “William Johnson” who is cited at the novel’s beginning.) That part of the book gives a vivid picture of the feuding paleontologists and of what it must have been like to dig out the bones and teeth of unimaginably huge creatures—whose reality many people of the time found impossible to accept—in the hot, dusty badlands of a West still filled with hostile (with good reason, most people would say today) Indians and stagecoach robbers.

I found the second half, in which Johnson becomes separated from the Cope party and must try to bring their heavy cache of excavated bones to safety, much less interesting, even though that is where most of the perils occur. They were the sort of perils that occur in just about any Western novel, so I felt like I’d seen it all before. I didn’t find Johnson a very interesting or well-developed character, either. In short, I’d recommend the first half of the book to anyone interested in the colorful early history of paleontology, but they can skip the so-so Western it’s attached to—and readers looking for a “Michael Crichton thriller” should never even start it.
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Adam W
5.0 out of 5 stars another engaging, addictive read
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2024
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The depth of characterisation and alignment to history is enthralling!
Though the main characters start out hard to connect with their trials intrigued and engross us, where we find we are rooting for them without realising it!
Great!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Most excellent
Reviewed in Canada on January 5, 2024
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An interesting look at Americas past and the birth of popular palaeontology.

Recommended read for any Crichton fans, maybe give a little insight to the beginnings of a Jurassic legacy.
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Randolph Flowers
5.0 out of 5 stars A bit slow to get going but a thoroughly enjoyable wild west romp
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 7, 2022
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I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed this book about paleontology in the Wild West, it's actually a great adventure story.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Muy Buen libro
Reviewed in Mexico on June 25, 2017
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Muy buen libro, recomendado. Llegó en el tiempo acordado y sin problemas. Lo recomiendo plenamente para cuál quiere lector, sin problemas
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Laura Tolomei
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic and hilarious read!
Reviewed in Italy on September 26, 2019
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Crichton's pungent humor blends in with this historical adventure to spin an intriguing yet witty tale that kept me hooked until the last page!

True that Michael Crichton is one of my favorite authors ever, but I didn't know how funny and ironic he could be. This work was therefore an unexpected surprise, and it thoroughly delighted me.

I would recommend this book to anyone with a high sense of adventure, a curiosity for the history of the US expansion in the West, a bonding with the fate of the American Indians, but mostly the propensity to make fun of people and situations no matter how dire their conditions.
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Olivia LG
5.0 out of 5 stars Como sempre, Crichton nos dá uma estória interessante e um monte de informações
Reviewed in Brazil on September 13, 2017
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O livro descreve uma aventura em que alguns personagens existiram e fazem parte da história da América e da ciência. O cenário é o Oeste inexplorado, selvagem e sem lei. O momento é da corrida do ouro e das guerras contra os nativos. Além de uma leitura cativante, a estória nos revela aspectos da vida social, das idéias, dos costumes da época. Excelente leitura.
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