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Dinotopia is fast becoming this sea- _ ities all their own. are shipwrecked on Dinotopia in 1860. 8
son’s success story. IUs a book about “a As Gurney built Dinotopia in paint- The result is adventure, wonder and 2
land apart from time,” where humans ings, he developed a story to go with it. beauty of the kind thal reaches out to Z
and dinosaurs live in peacefy] jnter- It’s the tale of Professor Arthur involve viewers and allow them to par= >
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The painter is Jayes Gumey, a 35-
year-old artist with exceptional artistic
skills — and the Unagination of a mas-
ler storyteller, Researching ancient civ-
ilizations has been a requirement for
Gurney in assignments for publications
such as Nationy] Geographic maga-
zine. Il was insyitable that he would
one day, dreany of a fictional civiliza-
tion and ask fhe “what if? question:
‘What if theré were a land where man
and dinosaur coexisted peacefully?”

His answer is the land of Dinotopia.
Dinotopia first came to life at the tip of
Gurney S faintbrush. He created the
Dinosaur Warade — a festival celebrat-
ed by all ¢f Dinotopia — in which peo-

“a ple ridefon the backs of dinosaurs
much as hey would an elephant.

We Created “Waterfall City,” a
walled netropolis of Dinotopia sitting
astridef (he foaming thunder of water-
falls LE Ne larger than Niagara. He created
dinogaur writing and dinosaur nurs-
erle¥- dinosaur culture built on art,

MUSic and architecture; and dinosaurs
4S ¢haracters with names and personal-

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