Dig A Personal Prehistoric Journey

About this book

Sam Chiarelli's Dig: A Personal Prehistoric Journey explores why we're so fascinated with dinosaurs and why some people – dinophiles – never outgrow their Mesozoic obsession.

Dig follows Sam on a cross-country Amtrak trip with a final destination of a fossil dig in Colorado. Buried within these pages are encounters in museums big and small, prep labs, robotic dinosaur parks, and prehistoric themed hotels – and interviews with many of Sam's childhood heroes: palaeontologists, artists, and others who've dedicated their lives to revealing the distant past.

Part science and nature adventure and part memoir, Dig: A Personal Prehistoric Journey is all dinosaur.

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Biography

Sam Chiarelli has an MFA in creative writing from Wilkes University and blogs at This Day in Dinosaurs. He's been a dinophile for more than 25 years and has dug for Mesozoic fossils in New Jersey and Colorado. Chiarelli resides in Pittston, Pennsylvania.