The Persian Expedition |
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Author:
| Xenophon, McGowan, Christopher |
Narrated by:
| Langton, Stuart |
ISBN: | 978-1-4332-3145-2 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Downloadable audio file |
List Price: | USD $31.96 |
Book Description:
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In the midst of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary group of scientists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric world a world that they had to piece together from the fossilized, fragmentary remains of animals no one had ever seen.
These nineteenth-century pioneers were an eccentric lot that included a working-class woman, an Oxford professor with a theatrical bent, a crisis-ridden country doctor who was never quite accepted among London s scientific elite, and...
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In the midst of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary group of scientists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric world a world that they had to piece together from the fossilized, fragmentary remains of animals no one had ever seen.
These nineteenth-century pioneers were an eccentric lot that included a working-class woman, an Oxford professor with a theatrical bent, a crisis-ridden country doctor who was never quite accepted among London s scientific elite, and an expert anatomist who once dissected a rhino in his living room.
These were the Dragon Seekers, the people who brought the myths to life and whose work, within a populace raised on a literal interpretation of Genesis, laid the groundwork for the revolutionary ideas of Darwin.