Travels with Fossil Hunters, Peter Whybrow (editor), 2000, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 176 p. (Hardcover $39.95) ISBN: 0-521-66301-6. Travels with the Fossil Hunters is a collection of essays by ten British paleontologists about their adventures to various corners of the world in the search for the quarry of their various specialties. As the title suggests, the focus is not on the fossils and their importance towards unraveling the history of life on Earth. Rather, these scientists tell the stories behind their discoveries. Peter Whybrow edited the volume and, like Whybrow, the contributors are, or were, associated with the British Museum of Natural History (London). Sir David Attenborough wrote a Forward and Richard Fortey a colorful Introduction. Curiously, the Brits scatter mostly eastward from the kingdom's seat towards the regions of Europe (Gibraltar, Latvia), Asia (China, Tibet, India, Pakistan, Turkey), Africa and the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, Yemen, the Sahara Desert, Sierra Leone), and south to Antarctica. (Is there some unconscious instinct at work here to reclaim lost glory of the former British empire?) The desired fossiliferous deposits span over 400 million years of evolutionary history, from Devonian brachiopods of Tibet to the recently extinct Neanderthals of Gibraltar. The quarry includes, among others, invertebrates (bryozoans in India, forams in Sierra Leone), dinosaurs in the Sahara desert, and hominids in Pakistan. In today's increasingly complex world driven by scheduled meetings, quarterly reports, and email that demands immediate responses, many of us with some field experience will fondly recall the peaceful quiet far from city lights and belching busses like that recounted by the travelers. They express many of the same nostalgic thoughts—“astonishing,” “exhilarating,” and “enjoyable”—at the beauty of the land and the feelings upon discovery of their long-sought quarry. In search of Miocene vertebrates on the Arabian coast, Whybrow and colleague Andrew …