The Pirates Don’t Eat The Tourists: Jurassic Park & Prehistoric Fiction

From Jurassic Park to Jules Verne, Roland Squire explores how dinosaurs captured human imagination across 200 years of fiction. Season 2 — Stones to Stories — traces prehistoric literature from Victorian fossil hunters to Cold War science fiction, taking in Michael Crichton, Arthur Conan Doyle, and beyond. For fans of Jurassic Park, dinosaurs, natural history, and the books that put teeth into deep time.

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The Pirates Don’t Eat The Tourists: Jurassic Park & Prehistoric Fiction

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