The Tomb of the Mili Mongga

A thoughtful and approachable scientific travelogue stuffed with mystery, humor, and … monsters? You’ll never think about fossils in the same way again! A must read. * Beth Shapiro *Turvey’s gripping adventures are a quest to understand human consciousness and explore the differences between cultural truths and scientific facts. * Richard Fortey *Part travelogue and part science, Samuel Turvey’s The Tomb of the Mili Mongga seeks out those elusive links between the present and the past, between fossils and folklore, and brings the reader along on an unexpected journey of discovery. * Steve Brusatte *Like a marvellous combination of H Rider Haggard and Gerald Durrell … Turvey brings fascinatingly diverse scholarship to bear, from theories of species extinction to joyous readings in folklore and anthropology. * Daily Telegraph *Paints a vivid and insightful portrait of a land and its people. * New Scientist *The prose is evocative, and Turvey weaves the natural history and folklore into an invigorating treatise on the nature of belief and knowledge. Vivid and transportive, this is a winner. * Publishers Weekly *An excellent tale of the comic frustrations of looking for a new hominin on a far-flung Indonesian island * The Daily Telegraph *

Samuel Turvey is a Professor of Conservation Biology at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London. His work focuses on understanding how science can guide conservation for the world’s rarest species, and his research encompasses ecology, the fossil record and Indigenous knowledge to gain new conservation insights. Sam is the author of Witness to Extinction: How We Failed to Save the Yangtze River Dolphin. He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 2019 for his contributions to zoology.

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