Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
Category: Science
Tags: Science, Historical Fiction, Adults
Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins Release date: 01-05-10 Publisher: Penguin Audio, A voyage of discovery, two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place and shines a light on women usually excluded from historyand on the simple pleasures of friendship., 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,
