Название: Dragon Teeth (Аудиокнига)Автор: Crichton Michael
Читает: Scott Brick, Sherri Crichton
Издательство: Harper Audio
Жанр: Приключение
Год издания: 2017
Язык: Английский
Формат: MP3
Битрейт аудио: 64 kbps
Время звучания: 07:40:32
Качество: хорошее
Размер: 213 Мб
Автор «Парка юрского периода» и множества других популярных технотриллеров Майкл Крайтон скончался в 2008 году. Рукопись под названием Dragon Teeth («Зубы дракона») была неожиданно найдена в архиве покойного писателя.
Издатели подсуетились и вот - «новая» книга Майкла Крайтона «Зубы дракона» в продаже. В романе речь идёт о соперничестве двух реально существовавших палеонтологов Эдварда Копа и Чарльза Марша, искавших останки динозавров, во времена крупных археологических открытий на американском Западе в 1878 г. Роман повествует о вымышленном герое Уильяме Джонсоне, который, сотрудничая с обоими знаменитостями, оказывается на пороге эпохального открытия …
The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories, even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars.
Into this treacherous territory plunges the arrogant and entitled William Johnson, a Yale student with more privilege than sense. Determined to survive a summer in the west to win a bet against his archrival, William has joined world-renowned paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh on his latest expedition. But when the paranoid and secretive Marsh becomes convinced that William is spying for his nemesis, Edwin Drinker Cope, he abandons him in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a locus of crime and vice. William is forced to join forces with Cope and soon stumbles upon a discovery of historic proportions. With this extraordinary treasure, however, comes exceptional danger, and William's newfound resilience will be tested in his struggle to protect his cache, which pits him against some of the West's most notorious characters.
Drawing on both meticulously researched history and an exuberant imagination, Dragon Teeth is based on the rivalry between real-life paleontologists Cope and Marsh; in William Johnson listeners will find an inspiring hero only Michael Crichton could have imagined. Perfectly paced and brilliantly plotted, this enormously winning adventure is destined to become another Crichton classic.