Author: SHINDLER, KAROLYN. (SIGNED).
Title: Discovering Dorothea. The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-Hunter Dorothea Bate.
Description: London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. 0002571382. 1st edition. "In 1898, a 19 year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum in South Kensington 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 fifty years." Pp.x/390, 16 black & white photo illustrations + 4 maps, inscribed by the author "To dear Douglas with the fondest of memories. Love Karolyn" to the title page. Blue cloth, dustwrapper has crease to top front edge and small tear to top front corner but is now in a removable clear protective wrap. VG/G+.

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