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A fascinating tale of adventure and discovery unfolds with this account of Donald Johanson's famous fossil find--the earliest hominid skeleton. Johanson takes readers to Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania on the dusty archaelogical dig, and to the heart of the controversy surrounding his tremendous... read more
First Sentence
As soon as my eyes opened I reached for my watch on the bed table. I knew already it was close to 3:30 AM. Over months of restless sleep I'd developed an ability to sense what time it was the moment I found myself awake, as if every minute through the long night had its own familiar scent that I could instantly recognize. Guessing the time had become a sort of grim pleasure, a little bit of consolation for being awake in the first place. It didn't matter whether I was sleeping at home in Berkeley, in a hotel room in Ames, Iowa, or in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It made no difference when I went to bed, or what seemed to have brought me out of sleep in the first place--or what seemed to have brought me out of sleep in the first place--a shout ourside the window, a nervous dream, a knotted back muscle. I nearly always guessed within ten minutes of the clock.
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- Donald C. Johanson (Author)
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