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REMARKABLE CREATURES - TRACY CHEVALIER KARTONIE...

A voyage of discovery  two remarkable women  and an extraordinary time and place enrich this
New York Times bestselling novel by Tracy Chevalier  author of At the Edge of the Orchard and
Girl With a Pearl Earring. On the windswept  fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast  poor
and uneducated Mary Anning learns that she has a unique gift: the eye to spot fossils no one
else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home  she
sets the religious community on edge  the townspeople to gossip  and the scientific world
alight. After enduring bitter cold  thunderstorms  and landslips  her challenges only grow when
she falls in love with an impossible man. Mary soon finds an unlikely champion in prickly
Elizabeth Philpot  a middle-class spinster who shares her passion for scouring the beaches.
Their relationship strikes a delicate balance between fierce loyalty  mutual appreciation  and
barely suppressed envy  but ultimately turns out to be their greatest asset. Remarkable
Creatures is a stunning historical novel that follows the story of two extraordinary 19th
century fossil hunters who changed the scientific world forever.

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