Curiosity : a love story

DAISY Sound Recording 2011

In the early 1800's, 12-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, England. Henry de la Beche, son of a gentry family and living with his elegant, cynical mother in Lyme Regis, pursued his passion for drawing and painting the landscapes and fossils of the area. One morning on an expedition to see an ext...

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Anning, Mary, 1799-1847 Fiction

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De La Beche, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1796-1855 Fiction

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ISBN:

9780616598481
0616598483

Edition:

DAISY edition
Computer data (104 files : 202 MB)

Description:

1 DAISY disc (14 hr., 39 min.) : digital ; 12 cm
digital DAISY format
4 3/4 in

Notes:

Canadian author
Access restricted to persons who are visually impaired or physically disabled and cannot use conventional print materials
Read by Patricia Ross
Reproduced from: Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, c2010. 9780771084171
System requirements: IBM PC or compatible; double speed or faster CD-ROM drive; sound card and sound output device; DAISY playback software or DAISY talking book player. Also plays in CD-MP3 player or computer with MP3-capable software
DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps

Control Number:

1893952

Other Authors:

Centre for Equitable Library Access (Canada)
Ross, Patricia

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