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Article: The American Museum of Natural History's Book of Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Creatures.(Review)
(book reviews)
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- Rocks & Minerals
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- September 1, 1998
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The American Museum of Natural History's Book of Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Creatures by Joseph Wallace. Simon & Schuster, New York. 144 pages; 1994; $25 (hardbound); and Discovering Dinosaurs in the American Museum of Natural History by Mark Norell, Eugene S. Gaffney, and Lowell Dingus. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 204 pages; 1995; $35 (hardbound).
With the reopening of the new dinosaur halls at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, dinosaurs once again entered the spotlight. These two books, while both dealing with the new halls, are very different.
More than half of the book by Wallace is a series of short chapters on the ...