Jurassic Mary: Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (901 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 075095924X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Patricia Pierce is the author of Old London Bridge and The Great Shakespeare Fraud.
"Five Stars" according to Thomas Pickett. Mary Anning is a favorite character and she is well represented here. great book. Read this before taking a trip to Lyme Regis.great book.
When she was just 12, she discovered the first whole ichthyosaurus skeleton; later, aged 22, she found the first whole skeleton of a plesiosaurus, and this find gained her international fame. It was inconceivable to them that an uneducated woman had produced such astonishing work. This biography rescues the now little-known life of this extraordinary woman from undeserved obscurity to reveal her full and fascinating life.. The life of one of the pioneers of the emerging science of geology whose discoveries were often credited in her time to others, due to her gender and classMary Anning (1799-1847) was one of the pioneers of the emerging science of geology, and the first woman palaeontologist to make important discoveries. During her lifetime she won the respect of contemporary scientists, receiving an annuity from the British Association for the Advancement of Science during the last decade of her life. She was unusual then—as she would be now—in being a woman geologist, and she was also a curiosity in being both provincial and lower cl
About the AuthorPatricia Pierce is the author of Old London Bridge and The Great Shakespeare Fraud.