Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter
- ISBN-10
- 1575054256
- ISBN-13
- 9781575054254
- Series
- Mary Anning
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 56
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-01-01
- Publisher
- Millbrook Press
- Author
- Sally M. Walker
Description
Describes the life of Mary Anning, who discovered many of the best and most complete fossils in nineteenth-century England, yet received little credit for her work.
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