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An edition of Remarkable creatures (2009)

Remarkable creatures

  • 3.00 ·
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In the early nineteenth century, a windswept beach along the English coast brims with fossils for those with the eye...

From the moment she's struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is marked for greatness. When she uncovers unknown dinosaur fossils in the cliffs near her home, she sets the scientific world alight, challenging ideas about the world's creation and stimulating debate over our origins. In an arena dominated by men, however, Mary is soon reduced to a serving role, facing prejudice from the academic community, vicious gossip from neighbours, and the heartbreak of forbidden love. Even nature is a threat, throwing bitter cold, storms, and landslips at her.

Luckily Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly, intelligent Elizabeth Philpot, a middle-class spinster who is also fossil-obsessed. Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty and barely suppressed envy. Despite their differences in age and background, Mary and Elizabeth discover that, in struggling for recognition, friendship is their strongest weapon.

Remarkable Creatures is Tracy Chevalier's stunning new novel of how one woman's gift transcends class and gender to lead to some of the most important discoveries of the nineteenth century. Above all, it is a revealing portrait of the intricate and resilient nature of female friendship.

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English
Pages
352

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Remarkable creatures
2009, HarperCollinsPublishers
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2009, HarperCollinsPublishers
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Published in

Hammersmith, London [England]

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-352).

Genre
Fiction

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3553.H4367 R46 2009, PS3553.H4367

The Physical Object

Pagination
352 p. :
Number of pages
352

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23977144M
Internet Archive
remarkablecreatu0000chev_h9h3
ISBN 13
9780007178377
LCCN
2009510649
OCLC/WorldCat
432608961

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