The Dragon in the Cliff: A Novel Based on the Life of Mary Anning - Softcover

Cole, Sheila

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0595350747 ISBN 13: 9780595350742

Verlag: iUniverse, 2005

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Book by Cole Sheila

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"I scraped off the clay...there was no mistaking what I saw...I had found it!"

What Mary Anning found in the cliffs in 1811, when she was 13, was the first complete fossil of an ichthyosaur, a marine dinosaur. Mary Anning lived in England in the 1800's. She hunted and sold fossils to save her family from poverty after her father died when she was 11 years old. Despite social disproval of her unfeminine occupation, Mary persisted and became a leading fossilist who made valuable contributions to science.

"Mary shines through as a spunky and believable heroine..."

--Booklist

Biografía del autor:

Mary Anning was a real person. Since little is known about her childhood, Sheila Cole decided that the truest way to tell her story was through fiction. She spent years researching the story. Ms. Cole has written for both children and adults. Her most recent book for children is nonfiction: To Be Young In America: Growing Up With The Country, 1776?1940.

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• Verlag: iUniverse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0595350747
• ISBN 13: 9780595350742
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232