Remarkable Creatures (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic) - Hardcover

Chevalier, Tracy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1410422887 ISBN 13: 9781410422880

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2010

Synopsis

On the windswept‚ fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast‚ Mary Anning learns that she has “the eye” — she finds what no one else can see. When Mary uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton‚ she sets the religi

About this title

About the Author:

Tracy Chevalier is the New York Times bestselling author of five previous novels, including Girl With the Pearl Earring and Burning Bright.

From AudioFile:

Chevalier plays to all her strengths in this fascinating fact-based novel about Mary Anning, a working-class girl in early nineteenth-century Lyme Regis who finds dinosaurs fossils in the cliffs along the beach. Elizabeth Philpot, who could have stepped straight out of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, becomes Mary's friend and champion when her discoveries put her at odds with all-male, class-bound scientific communities that believe, at worst, that the world was created only 6,000 years ago and could not include extinct creatures, and, at best, that women cannot do science. Charlotte Parry creates a gutsy but vulnerable Mary while Susan Lyons gives us a proper and ladylike Elizabeth. Together, they create an original and moving duet of unlikely friendship in this impeccable production. B.G. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1410422887
• ISBN 13: 9781410422880
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 465