JURASSIC MARY (MARY ANNING) (PB)

Born in Lyme Regis in 1799, spinster Mary Anning, uneducated and poor, was of the wrong sex, wrong class and wrong religion, but fate decreed that she was exactly the right person in the right place and time to pioneer the emerging science of palaeontology, the study of fossils. Her many discoveries were announced to the world by male geologists who often received the credit but this book redresses the imbalance, bringing to life the extraordinary, little-known story of a determined and pioneering woman.