The coral thief : a novel / Rebecca Stott.
By: Stott, Rebecca.
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BookPublisher: New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2009Edition: 1st ed.Description: 286 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780385531467 (trade : alk. paper); 038553146X.Subject(s): Anatomists -- Fiction | Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy -- Fiction | Anatomists -- Fiction | Evolution -- Philosophy -- Fiction | Historical fictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction.DDC classification: 823/.914 | [Fic] Summary: Daniel Connor, a medical student from Edinburgh, arrives in nineteenth-century Paris to study anatomy only to discover that his letters of introduction and rare coral specimens have been stolen by a woman whose world of outlaws and radical theories of evolution he gradually becomes acquainted with.
Daniel Connor, a medical student from Edinburgh, arrives in nineteenth-century Paris to study anatomy only to discover that his letters of introduction and rare coral specimens have been stolen by a woman whose world of outlaws and radical theories of evolution he gradually becomes acquainted with.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-286).
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