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Rare Treasure: Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries Hard - 1999
by Brown, Don
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- Title Rare Treasure: Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries
- Author Brown, Don
- Binding Hard
- Condition New
- Pages 32
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
- Date 1999
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 94793
- ISBN 9780395922866 / 0395922860
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.33 x 10.52 x 0.44 in (21.16 x 26.72 x 1.12 cm)
- Ages 04 to 07 years
- Grade levels P - 2
- Reading level 900
- Library of Congress subjects Fossils, Women - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98032372
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
Before the word "dinosaur" was even coined, a young girl discovered a remarkable skeleton on the rocky beach at Lyme Regis in England. Thus began a lifelong passion for an extraordinary woman who became one of the first commercial fossil collectors. Born in 1799, Mary Anning spent a lifetime teaching herself about fossils and combing the rugged ribbon of shore near her home. Her work yielded an astounding treasure trove: fossils of long-extinct creatures that thrilled customers in her shop and excited early paleontologists. Blind to the dangers of fossil-hunting and to the limitations imposed on women of her era, Mary Anning was a singular scientist who used her sharp eyes and clear mind to compose a picture of ancient life from the bones she unearthed. With his trademark graceful prose and lyrical watercolors, Don Brown distills the life story of this rare treasure of a scientist.