Discovering the Mammoth – A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science

John J. McKay brings together dozens of original documents and illustrations to show how an odd assortment of characters solved the mystery of the mammoth and, in doing so, created the science of palaeontology. John J. McKay has a Master’s in History from the University of Washington. A technical writer by trade, he is the “Mammoth Guy” by vocation, and his remarkable archival research, lively wit and passion for extinct proboscideans is well known to the scientific community. He lives in Anchorage, Alaska, where people appreciate a good mammoth. Visit him at mammothtales.blogspot.com.