DINOSAURS AT THE DINNER PARTY How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World

Golden Voice narrator Cassandra Campbell handles this nonfiction audiobook about the discovery of dinosaur bones in the early 1800s as effectively as she does the contemporary novels of Judy Bloom and John Grisham. Her brisk, commanding, highly flexible voice maintains its hold on the listener's ear even while traversing species names and fossil characteristics. A mismatched assortment of amateur geologists, baffled scientists, and determined Bible scholars provides Campbell with a rich narrative, often droll, always informative and insightful. The listener's tool here is the benefit of hindsight. Today we know these were prehistoric creatures, not victims of the Great Flood, and that the world is millions of years old. But in the decades before Darwin that was unwelcome news. D.A.W. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2024]