Curiosity : a love story
Record details
- ISBN: 9780771084171 (hc.) :
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Physical Description:
409 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, c2010.
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Genre: | Love stories. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Canadian fiction. Love stories. |
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- 3 of 5 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Terrace Public Library | Tho (Text) | 35151000144493 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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.