Author: Karolyn Shindler
Title: Discovering Dorothea - The Life of Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bate
ISBN: 0002571382
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition: First
First Published: 2005
Language: English
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Number of pages: 390
DESCRIPTION:
A vivid and engaging biography of Dorothea Bate, an internationally respected palaeontologist who, as a young woman in the early 1900s, explored and discovered fossils in Cyprus, Crete, Majora, Menorca and Palestine. An account of a unique, charming, intelligent, yet indomitable woman who worked behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum in the expanding world of archaeology during the first half of the twentieth century.
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*16 pages of black and white photographs
*References, bibliography and index included
*Slight wear at the top of the dust cover
*Pages starting to yellow slightly
Photographs are of the book you will receive
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