{"product_id":"9780771084188","title":"Curiosity","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eThomas, Joan\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMcClelland \u0026amp; Stewart\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2\/1\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD\u003cbr\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE MARGARET LAURENCE AWARD FOR FICTION\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eQUILL \u0026amp; QUIRE\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning novelist Joan Thomas blends fact and fiction, passion and science in  this stunning novel set in nineteenth-century Lyme Regis, England\u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003ethe seaside town that  is the setting of both \u003ci\u003eThe French Lieutenant's Woman \u003c\/i\u003eand Jane Austen's \u003ci\u003ePersuasion\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eMore than forty years before the publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Origin of Species\u003c\/i\u003e, twelve-year-old  Mary Anning, a cabinet-maker's daughter, found the first intact skeleton of a prehistoric  dolphin-like creature, and spent a year chipping it from the soft cliffs near Lyme  Regis. This was only the first of many important discoveries made by this incredible  woman, perhaps the most important paleontologist of her day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Henry de la Beche was  the son of a gentry family, owners of a slave-worked estate in Jamaica where he spent  his childhood. As an adolescent back in England, he ran away from military college,  and soon found himself living with his elegant, cynical mother in Lyme Regis, where  he pursued his passion for drawing and painting the landscapes and fossils of the  area. One morning on an expedition to see an extraordinary discovery—a giant fossil—he meets a young woman unlike anyone he has ever met . . .","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44210396823807,"sku":"9780771084188","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780771084188_s600x595.jpg?v=1775593244","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/de\/products\/9780771084188","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}