Holmes, Thom

Explores early prehistoric life during the Cambrian Period including marine life in the oceans and the Earth's first predators.

Presents a comprehensive history of the development of jazz in America, tracing its origins in New Orleans during the 1920s and migrating North, and describes such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Fletcher Henderson.

Outlines several expeditions by paleontologists hunting for information about dinosaurs in America, Africa, Canada, Patagonia, and elsewhere.

Relates the life stories of two nineteenth-century American dinosaur paleontologists and gives details of the bitter feud that existed between them.