Name: International author Ilja Nieuwland comes to Riverstone Books
Start: 2019-11-14T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-11-14T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Riverstone Books

International author Ilja Nieuwland comes to Riverstone Books

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Ilja Nieuwland, internationally renown scholar and author, discusses his newest book about Andrew Carnegie's prize dinosaur, Dippy.

Riverstone is thrilled to welcome Ilja Nieuwland and his fascinating book American Dinosaur Abroad about Dippy, the largest dinosaur skeleton of its time. In this largely untold history, Ilja Nieuwland explores the influence of Andrew Carnegie’s prized skeleton on European culture through the dissemination, reception, and agency of his plaster casts, revealing much about the social, political, cultural, and scientific context of the early twentieth century.
In early July 1899, an excavation team of paleontologists sponsored by Andrew Carnegie discovered the fossil remains in Wyoming of what was then the longest and largest dinosaur on record. Named after its benefactor, the Diplodocus carnegii—or Dippy, as it’s known today—was shipped to Pittsburgh and later mounted and unveiled at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 1907. Carnegie’s pursuit of dinosaurs in the American West and the ensuing dinomania of the late nineteenth century coincided with his broader political ambitions to establish a lasting world peace and avoid further international conflict. An ardent philanthropist and patriot, Carnegie gifted his first plaster cast of Dippy to the British Museum at the behest of King Edward VII in 1902, an impulsive diplomatic gesture that would result in the donation of at least seven reproductions to museums across Europe and Latin America over the next decade, in England, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Russia, Argentina, and Spain.We will be starting with an author discussion with a questions and answer session followed by a book signing.

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