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Remarkable Creatures is a novel, but our heroine is real. Mary Anning came from a working class family that was always one “curio” away from the poor house. Her father taught her as a small girl how to scour the beach for odd bits of fossil, and bone so she could help supplement her family’s income. Mary Anning “leads with her eyes”. It is this gift that allows her to search the shores of Lyme, England and find the bones of ancient sea creatures. Her story and her findings take place when Darwin was still a small boy, and yet, have any of us heard about Mary, or her contribution to science? One of the goals of this book, revealed in an interview with Tracy Chevalier, was to awaken in her readers the sense of the earth’s history, and our place in it. She mentions that if she can excite us to take a closer look at our surroundings…have an eye for the extraordinary, she feels she will have accomplished her goal. Well Tracy, you have excited me. Sina H.
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