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My Search for T. Rex
Council Oak Books
February 2011
On Sale: February 3, 2011
208 pages
ISBN: 1571782532
EAN: 9781571782533
Hardcover
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Humor
Richard Polsky's seriously hilarious new book Boneheads: My
Search for
T. Rex leads us deep into the South Dakota badlands where he
discovers a lost
tribe -- the Boneheads -- and becomes one of them. This
oddball group of dinosaur hunters is intent on bagging the
Holy Grail of the profession -- a Tyrannosaurus rex
skeleton. Fewer than fifty skeletons have ever been found,
but one of them brought $8.3 million at Sotheby's.
Meet the Boneheads, a modern stone-age family: There's Stan
and Steve Sacrisson, eccentric twins from South Dakota, with
an uncanny sense for locating rexes. Though one is a
gravedigger and the other sleeps in his car, the pair have
discovered three of them. Then there's cowboy Bucky
Derflinger who discovered two rexes and bought a cattle
ranch with the million-dollar proceeds. And finally there's
the tribe's monarch: Bob Detrich, a former male model and
ball-bearing salesman who goes by the name Fossil King.
Polsky goes into the field to follow a childhood obsession,
only to learn that finding a dinosaur is a rocky journey. So
come along with Richard Polsky as he gets out into the field
in pursuit of a T. rex of his own. Or as the author puts it,
"Let others hunt trilobites! I want the big one!"
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