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Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters
Patricia Pierce
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Description for Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters
Paperback. Jurassic Mary Num Pages: 256 pages, 21 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white plates. BIC Classification: HBG; RBG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 302.
Spinster Mary Anning, uneducated and poor, was of the wrong sex, wrong class and wrong religion, but fate decreed that she was exactly the right person in the right place and time to pioneer the emerging science of palaeontology, the study of fossils. Born in Lyme Regis in 1799, Mary learned to collect fossils with her cabinet-maker father. The unstable cliffs and stealthy sea made the task dangerous but after her father died the sale of fossils sustained her family. Mary's fame started as an infant when she survived a lightning strike that killed the three ... Read more
Spinster Mary Anning, uneducated and poor, was of the wrong sex, wrong class and wrong religion, but fate decreed that she was exactly the right person in the right place and time to pioneer the emerging science of palaeontology, the study of fossils. Born in Lyme Regis in 1799, Mary learned to collect fossils with her cabinet-maker father. The unstable cliffs and stealthy sea made the task dangerous but after her father died the sale of fossils sustained her family. Mary's fame started as an infant when she survived a lightning strike that killed the three ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780750959247
SKU
V9780750959247
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99-50
About Patricia Pierce
Patricia Pierce is the author of Old London Bridge and The Great Shakespeare Fraud.
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