In the second book The World Beneath, his first villainous scheme was to escape Dinotopia in a sunstone powered strutter and return with an army to plunder the island. He is known for smoking cigars and wearing sea shells on his hat, he hated the dinosaurs as he believes that they have enslaved the humans of Dinotopia he calls them Scalies. He was washed up on Dinotopia in 1853, however Crabb despised the island and ever since had being plotting a means of escape.
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He accompanied his father on a two-year voyage of discovery following the death of his mother in 1860, then in 1862 he and Arthur were shipwrecked on Dinotopia.
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Following the death of his wife Rachel in 1860 he and his son Will left their home Boston on a voyage of discovery.
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Gurney acknowledges the resemblance but has remained positive about it.
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Many have claimed that some scenes in the film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (particularly those in the city of Theed on Naboo) unfairly copy images from Gurney's books.
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He called the series "Dinotopia": a portmanteau of "dinosaur" and "utopia". Rather than digital tools, Gurney used " plein-air studies, thumbnail sketches, models photographed in costume and original cardboard or clay maquettes" to create 150 oil paintings for his 2007 Dinotopia book. He later decided to create an imaginary island based on these paintings. These were originally done as art prints for collectors. This inspired him to imagine his own, so he painted "Waterfall City" and "Dinosaur parade". David takes to it and saurians, Karl rebels revolted, yet wins a graduation commendation by cheating.Gurney's assignments for National Geographic required him to work with archaeologists to envision and paint ancient cities that no one alive today has ever seen. Told there is no way off the island, they must set out on a perilous ‘diono-bus’ journey, beleaguered by wild pterodactyls and relieved by Oonu’s squadron of tame ‘skybax’ aerial Dino’s, to the splendorous capital Waterfall City, where the ruling mayor sends them to mixed school where Marion, whom they befriended o the way, teaches with her saurian life partner, erudite Zippo. Dardevil Karl and cautious, studious David swim ashore and are astonished to be find a society where people cohabit happily with tame, even speaking dinosaurs. StoryLine: Pilot Frank Scott takes his sons, half-brothers raised by different mothers, along on an island hopping holiday, but just after spotting an unchartered yet inhabited large isle, the plane crashes at sea and unconscious Frank presumably drowns. Cast: David Thewlis, Katie Carr, Jim Carter