Mary Anning on Diane Rehm (or vice versa?)
Tracy Chevalier, the author of Girl With A Pearl Earring, has a new book out about the groundbreaking fossil hunter Mary Anning. She was interviewed this week on the Diane Rehm Show, an NPR-syndicated program produced a few miles from here at American University. The new book is called Remarkable Creatures.
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She sells sea shells by the seashore (wow, that's even hard to type!)...
Having read the book, I must say it leaves something to be desired. Doesn't do Anning justice and warps part of her history for the sake of adding some romantic drama. A better choice, though not perfect, is Shelley Emling's biography of Anning entitled The Fossil Hunter. For what they're worth, my thoughts on both books made up a recent post on my blog (www.fossilsandotherlivingthings.blogspot.com).
Cool. Thanks, Tony. I'll check it out.
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