Books published by publisher Bailey Brothers and Swinfen

Dodos were living less than three hundred years ago, dinosaurs inhabited the earth millions of years before the first cave man appeared, but both these species are extinct, and our knowledge of them is derived from painstaking scientific detection. The reader is shown how the information required to construct the lifelike models was amassed over the years; how fossils were carefully sought all over the world, and pieced together to reveal the strange creatures who once roamed the earth. The numerous photographs of museum exhibits and of excavations in progress help to show the magnitude of the task that faced the scientists who first set out to reconstruct the past.