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Prize-winning author Joan Jones mixes reality and fiction, enthusiasm and technology in this spectacular book occur 19th-century Lyme Regis, England — the beach town that's the environment of both French Lieutenant's Woman and Jane Austen's Persuasion.More than 40 years prior to the publication of The Foundation of Species, 12-year-old Mary Anning, a cabinet-maker's daughter, discovered the very first intact skeleton of a primitive dolphin-like beast, and used a year cracking it in the smooth cliffs near Lyme Regis. This was just the to begin several important breakthroughs produced by this amazing lady, probably the most important paleontologist of her day.Henry de la Beche was the son of a gentry family, owners of the servant-worked property in Jamaica where he spent his youth. Being an adolescent in England, he went from college, and quickly found herself coping with his stylish, negative mom in Lyme Regis, where he pursued his love for painting and drawing the fossils and areas of the region. One day on a trip to determine an exceptional breakthrough — a huge guess — he meets a lady unlike anyone he's actually met…From the Hardcover version.