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Thomas, Joan (Sandra Joan)
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Anning, Mary, 1799-1847 -- Fiction.
De La Beche, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1796-1855 -- Fiction.
Women paleontologists -- Fiction.
Lyme Regis (England) -- Fiction.
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Thomas, Joan (Sandra Joan)
Anning, Mary, 1799-1847 -- Fiction.
De La Beche, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1796-1855 -- Fiction.
Women paleontologists -- Fiction.
Lyme Regis (England) -- Fiction.
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Curiosity : a love story / Joan
Thomas
.
by
Thomas
, Joan (Sandra Joan)
McClelland & Stewart, c2010.
Call #:
FICTION
THO
Subjects
Anning, Mary, 1799-1847
--
Fiction
.
De
La
Beche
,
Henry
T
. (
Henry
Thomas
),
1796-1855
--
Fiction
.
Women paleontologists
--
Fiction
.
Lyme Regis (England)
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780771084171
Description:
409 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"More than 40 years before the publication of "The Origin of Species", 12-year-old Mary Anning, a cabinet-maker's daughter, found the first intact skeleton of a prehistoric dolphin-like creature, and spent a year chipping it from the soft cliffs near Lyme Regis. This was only the first of many important discoveries made by this incredible woman, perhaps the most important paleontologist of her day.
Henry
de
la
Beche
was the son of a gentry family, owners of a slave-worked estate in Jamaica where he spent his childhood. As an adolescent back in England, he ran away from military college, and soon found himself living with his elegant, cynical mother in Lyme Regis, where he pursued his passion for drawing and painting the landscapes and fossils of the area. One morning on an expedition to see an extraordinary discovery
--
a giant fossil
--
he meets a young woman unlike anyone he has ever met..."--Inside jacket.
Genre:
Historical
fiction
.
Biographical
fiction
.
Canadian
fiction
.
Love stories.
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