![]() 400,000 first printing BOMC featured alternate QPB selection author tour. ![]() Though too superficial for the serious fantasy reader, this volume is great fun to browse through, and should find its way on to many coffee tables. Do one thing at a time'' (from the Code of Dinotopia). The result is an enjoyable pastiche, full of visual references to cultures from Oz to Thailand and flavored with a Robert Fulghum-inspired philosophy: ``Observe, listen, and learn. This unimaginative narrative exists mainly as a framework for the copious illustrations, which show breathtakingly exotic but impossible sights, such as a canyon city of people and flying dinosaurs, as well as amusing sketches of domestic scenes. A long-lost legend is found.Will is a skybax rider, one of the elite couriers of Dinotopia, a land apart from time where humans and dinosaurs coexist in. The scientist and his son travel around it, and the son grows up and falls in love. Posing as a 19th-century scientist's travel sketchbook, this entertaining hybrid mates the visual appeal of the Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady with a Jules Verne-like tale of Dinotopia, a land where dinosaurs and humans coexist. ![]()
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