{"product_id":"impossible-monsters-michael-taylor","title":"Impossible Monsters (Michael Taylor)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eImpossible Monsters\u003c\/i\u003e is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An astonishing book about an extraordinary subject'\u003c\/b\u003e PETER FRANKOPAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'As thrilling as it is sweeping'\u003c\/b\u003e TOM HOLLAND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This book dazzles in its originality . . . a triumph' \u003c\/b\u003eSATHNAM SANGHERA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some strange-looking bones in Britain's southern shoreline - and so sparked a crisis that would engulf science and religion for the next six decades. By its end, the literal reading of the Bible had been overturned, science had been liberated from religion and the secular age had begun. \u003ci\u003eImpossible Monsters \u003c\/i\u003etakes us into the lives and minds of the extraordinary men and women whose discovery of the dinosaurs revolutionised our understanding of the world, as well as those who resisted them and those, like Charles Darwin, who took great risks to construct a new account of the earth's and mankind's origins. It is the riveting story of a group of people who dared to think impossible things and then showed them to be true.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Truly marvellous ... an intellectual thriller' \u003c\/b\u003eRICHARD HOLMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A stunning work ... of surprises and revelations'\u003c\/b\u003e STEVE BRUSATTE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eMichael Taylor is the author of \u003ci\u003eImpossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize 2024 and chosen as a Book of the Year by the \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e and Waterstones, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and chosen as a \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year. He was born in 1988 and graduated with a double first in history from the University of Cambridge, where he earned his PhD. He has since been Lecturer in Modern British History at Balliol College, Oxford, and a Visiting Fellow at the British Library's Eccles Centre for American Studies.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 496 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65780332298589,"sku":"K097911506","price":13.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9791150600001A.jpg?v=1788314960","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/impossible-monsters-michael-taylor","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}