Steve Brusatte

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

£90

Illustrated by Davide Bonadonna

In The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, top palaeontologist Steve Brusatte brings prehistoric Earth brilliantly to life in an illustrated Folio edition with stunning art from Davide Bonadonna.

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Book Details

Presentation Box & BindingBound in printed and blocked cloth
Printed slipcase

Dimensions10 inches x 6¾ inches

FontSet in Nocturne Serif

Pages296 pages

AuthorSteve Brusatte

Illustrated byDavide Bonadonna

IllustrationIntegrated title page illustration plus an 8-page full-colour gatefold illustration
32 pages of colour plates
Large fold-out colour map in corner pocket

Publication Date15/03/2022

Editor's Notes

They’re the celebrities of the primeval world: Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Velociraptor, Stegosaurus and Brachiosaurus. All these A-listers and a vast supporting cast are brought thrillingly to life in The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, hailed by Scientific American as ‘the ultimate dinosaur biography’.

In an exhilarating trip through 150 million years of evolutionary history, world-leading palaeontologist Steve Brusatte charts the complete story of the dinosaurs, from the scampering lizards that found an evolutionary toehold in the Triassic period to the vast Jurassic sauropods – the biggest land dwellers ever to have lived – and the bloodthirsty raptors that preyed on them. A chapter is devoted to the most fearsome of all, T. rex. The story ends not with mass extinction, but with the revelation that modern birds are simply ‘a weird form of dinosaur’. This Folio edition includes a superb fold-out colour map featuring silhouettes by palaeo-artist Emily Willoughby and selected archive images, plus vivid fossil photography throughout. Award-winning palaeo-artist Davide Bonadonna contributes the spectacular fold-out illustrations of dinosaurs in action. This is the book for anyone seeking to know more about the most notorious denizens of our prehistoric past.

About the Illustrator

David Bonnadonna

Davide Bonadonna is an Italian scientific and medical illustrator best known for his artwork reconstructing extinct animals known only from the palaeontological record. His palaeo art has been commissioned by museums, book publishers and magazines including Nature and National Geographic. Bonadonna’s work has won many awards, including the International Dinosaur Illustration Contest of Museo da Lourinhã in Portugal, and the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology’s John J. Lanzendorf PaleoArt Prize for his work on Diplodocus carnegii. He also provided the artwork for the Folio Society edition of Brusatte's The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (2018; Folio 2022).

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About the Author

Steve Brusatte is a palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist who conducts fieldwork across the world; he has discovered more than 15 species of fossil animal. Brusatte studied at the universities of Chicago and Bristol before completing a PhD at Columbia University in New York, and is now Chair of Palaeontology and Evolution at the University of Edinburgh. His books include The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs (2018; Folio 2022) and The Rise and Reign of the Mammals (2022; Folio 2024). Brusatte is regularly consulted by the media on dinosaur-related topics and was the palaeontological adviser on the film Walking with Dinosaurs. He is the palaeontology consultant for the ‘Jurassic World’ film franchise. His The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs was published by the Folio Society in 2022.

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