The Monster-Hunters

Perry Hunt has spent his whole life dreaming of real dragons. Not the fire-breathing kind from fairy tales, but the ancient, enormous skeletons buried deep in the earth, waiting to be found. When his paleontologist uncle George announces an expedition to Egypt in search of the ancestors of elephants, Perry's fantasies finally have a chance to become reality. But the desert holds more than bones. As Perry digs through ancient gravesites, he discovers that some prehistoric secrets were buried for good reason, and that the line between discovery and danger is thinner than any textbook suggests. Written in 1916, when the science of fossils was still young and breathless, this is a boyhood adventure that captures the electric moment when science felt like magic, when every dig might uncover something world-changing, and when a young person with courage and curiosity could still find monsters where no one else thought to look.