Remarkable Creatures  -  Tracy Chevalier

KORTE INHOUD

From the moment she is struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is marked for greatness. When she uncovers fossils of unknown creatures 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.
The is an arena dominated by men but luckily Mary finds an unlikely champion in Prickly, intelligent Elizabeth Philpot. Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty and barely suppessed ...
2009 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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2009 Uitgever: Harper & Collins 343 paginas Taal: Engels