Item #116515 REMARKABLE CREATURES. Tracy Chevalier.

REMARKABLE CREATURES. Plume.

New York: Penguin Books, 2010. Large trade paperback. Light shelfwear. Very Good.

Item #116515
ISBN: 9780452296725


312pp.A stunning historical novel that follows the story of Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, two extraordinary 19th century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever.On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot ammonites and other fossils no one else can see.

Price: $5.50