Remarkable Creatures
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. First printing. Mylar cover included.
“We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.”
Remarkable Creatures is the story of two independent women who become unlikely friends. It centers around the life of 19th century fossil hunter Mary Anning who becomes an important figure in the world of paleontology. Her discoveries take place at a time when scientists know very little about fossils. The second heroine, Elizabeth Philpot, is as described by Jane Austen: “a middle-class spinster sent away by a married brother to live more cheaply elsewhere.” The two women forge a friendship cemented by shared obsession and mutual respect.
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. First printing. Mylar cover included.
“We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.”
Remarkable Creatures is the story of two independent women who become unlikely friends. It centers around the life of 19th century fossil hunter Mary Anning who becomes an important figure in the world of paleontology. Her discoveries take place at a time when scientists know very little about fossils. The second heroine, Elizabeth Philpot, is as described by Jane Austen: “a middle-class spinster sent away by a married brother to live more cheaply elsewhere.” The two women forge a friendship cemented by shared obsession and mutual respect.
Trade cloth edition in very good condition. Dust jacket with intact price point. Full number line starting with 1. First printing. Mylar cover included.
“We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.”
Remarkable Creatures is the story of two independent women who become unlikely friends. It centers around the life of 19th century fossil hunter Mary Anning who becomes an important figure in the world of paleontology. Her discoveries take place at a time when scientists know very little about fossils. The second heroine, Elizabeth Philpot, is as described by Jane Austen: “a middle-class spinster sent away by a married brother to live more cheaply elsewhere.” The two women forge a friendship cemented by shared obsession and mutual respect.
ISBN 978-0-525-95145-2
Tracy Chevalier
2010