- The Day of the Dinosaur
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name = The Day of the Dinosaur
title_orig =
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image_caption = Dust-jacket for "The Day of the Dinosaur"
author =L. Sprague de Camp andCatherine Crook de Camp
illustrator =
cover_artist = Patricia Saville Voehl
country =United States
language = English
series =
subject =Paleontology
publisher = Doubleday
release_date =1968
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = xiii, 319 pp
isbn = NA
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followed_by ="The Day of the Dinosaur" is a
science book byL. Sprague de Camp andCatherine Crook de Camp , illustrated with plates. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in1968 , and in paperback byCurtis Books in1971 .As stated on the cover of the Doubleday edition, the work is a survey of "the exciting story of the lost world of the great reptiles and of the fossil hunters who discovered them millions of years later." It argues, among other things, that the
theory ofevolution took hold after Darwin because of interest spurred by recently popularizeddinosaur remains, corresponding tolegend s ofdragons .References
*cite book | last=Laughlin | first=Charlotte | coauthors=Daniel J. H. Levack | title=De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography | location=San Francisco | publisher=Underwood/Miller | pages=23 | date=1983
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