While my first book had published was Vagabonding in 2003, and the first travel book I wrote (but did not publish) was Pilgrims in a Sliding World in 1995, the first book I ever completed was Dinosaurs, a whimsical (yet completely earnest) hand-illustrated science book that I wrote in 1978, at age seven.

I have talked about (and fact-checked) this bygone book in a 2020 Deviate podcast episode entitled “Why dinosaurs matter,” but in the interest of posterity, I am making a available here a free PDF and an ePub film for Kindle and similar e-readers.

Dinosaurs (1978) PDF version