Adam Mitzner
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Remarkable Creatures: A Novel Published by Plume |
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From the moment she's struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear
Mary Anning is different. Though poor and uneducated, she learns on the
windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast that she has a
unique gift: "the eye" to spot fossils no one else can see. When she
uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home,
she sets the religious community on edge, the townspeople to gossip --
and the scientific world alight with both admiration and controversy.
Prickly Elizabeth Philpot, a middle-class spinster and also a fossil
hunter, becomes Mary Anning's unlikely champion and friend, and
together they forge a path to some of the most important discoveries of
the nineteenth century. pub date: 2010-10-26 | Paperback | 9780452296725 |
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