JURASSIC PARK Crichton, Michael Publisher: Ballantine Books City
Where Published: New York Date of latest copy: 1990 Edition: First
Ballantine Books Edition: December 1991. 399 Pages, Hardcover I. A Brief
Summary of the Plot. A billionaire has created a technique to clone dinosaurs.
From the left behind DNA that his crack team of scientists and experts extract
he is able to grow the dinosaurs in labs and lock them up on an island behind
electrified fences. He has created a sort of theme park on the island which is
located off the west coast of Costa Rica. The island is called Isla Nublar. He
plans to have the entire planet come and visit his wondrous marvels. He asks
a group of scientists from several different fields to come and view the park,
but something terribly goes wrong when a worker on the island turns traitor
and shuts down the power. II. A Description of the Most Important Aspects
of the Contents. The main characters in the book are: John Hammond who is
a billionaire developer who has used his resources to create the dinosaur
filled island known as Jurassic Park. He is an old grandfather, and he dies in
the book by a dinosaur known as a Procompsognathus. Dr. Alan Grant who is
a renowned paleontologist who agrees to visit Jurassic Park only to find out it
is the home of several Dinosaurs. Unlike the movie Dr. Grant loves kids in
the book. He also had a of a beard. Dr. Ellie Sattler is a Paleobotinist and
Alan Grant who is among the first people to tour Jurassic Park. Tim who is
the 11 year old grandson of John Hammond. He is kind of geeky, into
computers and loves Dinosaurs. His 7 year older sister is Alexis. She has a
kind of tomboy attitude and loves base-ball Ian Malcom is the Mathematician
that uses "Chaos Theory" to predict disastrous results. he only wears black
and gray. He is presumably dead in Jurassic Park the book, but
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