TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gurney,James
TI  - Dinotopia: a land apart from time 
SN  - 1878685236 :
AV  - PZ7.G98158 Di 1992
U1  - 813/.54 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Atlanta
PB  - Turner Pub.
KW  - Fantasy
KW  - Dinosaurs
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Islands
KW  - Adventure and adventurers
KW  - Dinosaurs in art
KW  - Fantasy in art
KW  - Fantastic fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Sequel: Dinotopia, the world beneath
N2  - In 1862, after being shipwrecked in uncharted seas, Professor Arthur Denison and his twelve-year-old son Will find themselves washed up on a strange island where people and dinosaurs live together peacefully. Reaching shore with the help of friendly dolphins, the Denisons find themselves on a strange island inhabited by dinosaurs and humans living together in a peaceful, cooperative society. So begins the story told through Professor Denison's detailed and enthusiastic journal. The two castaways have stumbled onto a kinder, gentler world where reptilian wisdom has a decidedly Zen flavor: "Breathe Deep. Seek Peace. Although we find every kind of dinosaur here, it is the humans who catch our attention--characters like Tok Timbu, a blue-eyed African descended from a Yoruba king, and Nallab the librarian, who looks like a wizard gone to seed. As father and son travel the terrain that is Dinotopia, Gurney's vision unfolds via spectacular paintings that illuminate the sweeping vistas of Waterfall City and Canyon City as well as the uncharacteristically sensitive faces of the dinosaur mentors. This is the kind of lap book that readers will pore over for hours, studying the intricate drawings of dinosaur hatcheries and ingenious gadgets of every kind. As satisfying a story as it is, we are still left wanting more, since a mystery remains about what Professor Denison discovered in the forbidden World Beneath
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/dinotopialandapa00gurn
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1752541M
ER  -