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It is the setting for the book series with which it shares its name. With their new protoceratops translator bix, they travel across the island and learn about its culture and customs. It is set in the titular dinotopia, an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked humans and sapient dinosaurs who have learned to coexist peacefully as a single symbiotic society. James gurney s fantasy art has appeared on the covers of more than 70 books, and his art appears regularly in national geographic.
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