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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World Developmental " and "The Masque ofFrom the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, an "utterly delightful hugely entertaining" (Air Mail) book about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history. In the early 1800s the natural world was a safe and cozy place, or so people believed. But then a twelve year old farm boy in Massachusetts stumbled on a row of fossilized three toed footprints