Raptor Red : A Novel Mass market paperbound - 1996
by Bakker, Robert T
- Used
As this story begins, a fierce fight pitting a female raptor and her mate against a giant astrodon sets the stage for a gripping odyssey related from a dinosaur's point-of-view. With Raptor Red's mate killed in the attack, she embarks on a year-long test of survival. Traffic-stopping hologram cover!
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- Title Raptor Red : A Novel
- Author Bakker, Robert T
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Random House Publishing Group, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-08-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP102055396
- ISBN 9780553575613 / 0553575619
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 6.85 x 4.18 x 0.73 in (17.40 x 10.62 x 1.85 cm)
- Reading level 960
- Library of Congress subjects Adventure fiction, Dinosaurs
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
From the jacket flap
So begins one of the most extraordinary novels you will ever read. The time is 120 million years ago, the place is the plains of prehistoric Utah, and the eyes belong to an unforgettable heroine. Her name is Raptor Red, and she is a female Raptor dinosaur.
Painting a rich and colorful picture of a lush prehistoric world, leading paleontologist Robert T. Bakker tells his story from within Raptor Red's extraordinary mind, dramatizing his revolutionary theories in this exciting tale. From a tragic loss to the fierce struggle for survival to a daring migration to the Pacific Ocean to escape a deadly new predator, "Raptor Red combines fact an fiction to capture for the first time the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of the most magnificent, enigmatic creatures ever to walk the face of the earth.
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- Publishers Weekly, 07/08/1996, Page 0
