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Discovering Dorothea

Autor Karolyn Shindler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2017
In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum and demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists, but for the determined Dorothea Bate this was the first step in an extraordinary career as a pioneering explorer and fossil-hunter and the beginning of an association with the Museum that was to last for more than 50 years. As a young woman she explored the islands of Cyprus, Crete and the little known Majorca and Menorca, braving parental opposition and considerable physical hardship and danger. In remote mountain caves and sea-battered cliffs, she discovered, against enormous odds, the fossil evidence of unique species of extinct fauna, previously unknown to science, including dwarf elephants and hippos, giant dormice and a strange small goat-like antelope. Internationally respected as an outstanding palaeontologist during her lifetime, Dorothea was largely forgotten after her death. Now, working from unpublished letters, papers and work diaries and re-tracing her steps, Karolyn Shindler has rediscovered Dorothea's life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780565094379
ISBN-10: 0565094378
Pagini: 160
Ilustrații: 38 black and white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 139 x 197 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:3rd Third Edition, Third edition
Editura: Natural History Museum

Notă biografică

Karolyn Shindler is a former producer and editor at the BBC. She also worked as a political consultant to BBC World Service, and is a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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The biography of a groundbreaking explorer who blazed a trail for women in science.