Tracy Chevalier
Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages Rating: 3.85 | 41084 Users | 4541 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Remarkable Creatures |
| ISBN: | 0007178379 (ISBN13: 9780007178377) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.tchevalier.com/remarkablecreatures/index.html |
| Characters: | Mary Anning, Elizabeth Philpot, William Buckland, Captain Birch, Cuvier |
| Setting: | Lyme Regis, England,1820(United Kingdom) England Yorkshire, England(United Kingdom) |
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In 1810, a sister and brother uncover the fossilized skull of an unknown animal in the cliffs on the south coast of England. With its long snout and prominent teeth, it might be a crocodile – except that it has a huge, bulbous eye.Remarkable Creatures is the story of Mary Anning, who has a talent for finding fossils, and whose discovery of ancient marine reptiles such as that ichthyosaur shakes the scientific community and leads to new ways of thinking about the creation of the world.
Working in an arena dominated by middle-class men, however, Mary finds herself out of step with her working-class background. In danger of being an outcast in her community, she takes solace in an unlikely friendship with Elizabeth Philpot, a prickly London spinster with her own passion for fossils.
The strong bond between Mary and Elizabeth sees them through struggles with poverty, rivalry and ostracism, as well as the physical dangers of their chosen obsession. It reminds us that friendship can outlast storms and landslides, anger and jealousy.
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| Title | : | Remarkable Creatures |
| Author | : | Tracy Chevalier |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 352 pages |
| Published | : | August 24th 2009 by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (first published 2009) |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Literature. 19th Century. Adult Fiction. Audiobook |
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Ratings: 3.85 From 41084 Users | 4541 ReviewsCommentary Based On Books Remarkable Creatures
Fascinating story that blends actual people and events in a work of fiction. Until this story, I had no idea who Mary Anning or Elizabeth Philpot were and how important their work was in the discovery of prehistoric creatures. Their discoveries at the beginning of the 19th century came at the time when many tried to explain or reconcile geology with their religious beliefs when very idea of extinction was anathema because it suggested that God was imperfect. What are these creatures and why dontI wish I had read this book, or learned something about Mary Anning, before I went to London. I saw her picture and the fossils she discovered at the Natural History Museum in London without ever realizing what a remarkable accomplishment it was. She was a poor, uneducated, working class girl whose family survived by selling "curies" (curiosities), small fossils found on the beach in Lyme Regis. She finds what she considers crocodiles with fins, but are really the first pterodactyl and
I now know more than I ever expected to about fossil-collecting by English women during the Regency period.This historical novel is somewhat loosely based on several people who actually lived, and either hunted or collected fossils, in England in the early 1800s. It alternates between the viewpoints of Elizabeth Philpot, a genteel spinster in reduced circumstances who moves to Lyme Regis by the sea (a hotbed for fossil-hunters) and discovers a passion for fossils, and Mary Anning, the daughter
"She sells seashells" . . . . People have been trying to wrap their heads and words about the story of Mary Anning for a long time, including Tracy Chevalier here in Remarkable Creatures.Remarkable Creatures doesn't have the same sure hand or intricately drawn world as Girl with a Pearl Earring, but Chevalier's own curiosity in her subject can not be doubted as you can see in this Tracy Chevalier ">BBC slide show narrated by Tracy Chevalier and this Barnes and Noble Studio beach walk
This book had all the makings of a remarkable book: a female fossil hunter in the early 1800s whose contributions to paleontology have been overlooked; new science challenging long-held religious beliefs... As you delve into the book you realize how ground breaking the events of the novel are. If there were creatures buried in the earth that no longer lived on land that meant that God had made a mistake! Or that Genesis as they knew it didn't make sense - if God made Heaven and Earth first and
Some of my favorite things about Remarkable Creatures:1) Bathing machines! 2) Fossils, of course. 3) A regency era book about friendship between two women, rather than the marriage of some rehabilitated rake and some nubile.4) Elizabeth's characterization of people based upon what feature they "lead" with - eyes, hair, hands. 5) Fossils!I enjoyed this book a lot more after I came across some information about who Mary Anning really was. At first, I did not realize this was based on the stories
Another winner by Chevalier...I had never heard of Mary Anning and as I read this, it again dawned on me how many women have been erased and disappeared from history because of sexism and male prejudice during the times they lived in...Anning was a major paleontologist who was completely self taught, living in poverty, and discovered several important prehistoric fossils from the Jurassic period that challenged the conventional thinking of the time about creation, the age of the earth, and
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