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The great unknown : a novel / Peg Kingman.
What is your name? Where did you come from? And where are you going? In this immersive novel set in 1840s Britain and France, these questions probe at the essence of what it means to be human. A wet nurse in a lively Scottish household goes by an assumed name, but longs to know the identity of her father. A quarryman furtively extricates a remarkable fossil from an island off the Northumberland coast and promptly smuggles it abroad to Paris. A sensational bestselling book that shatters cherished notions about the universe and everything in it triggers widespread argument and speculation-but its author's name is a well-guarded secret. Another book, roundly ignored, neatly sets forth in an obscure appendix the principle that will become the centerpiece of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. All these threads-some historical, others fictional-converge and illuminate one another in unexpected ways in the climactic revelations of this brilliant story.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781684577057
- ISBN: 1684577055
- Physical Description: 9 audio discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : Highbridge Audio, [2020]
- Copyright: ℗2020
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Compact discs. In container (17 cm.). Title from container. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by Henrietta Meire. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Wet nurses > Fiction. France > Fiction. Great Britain > Fiction. Scotland > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Audiobooks. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at SPARK Libraries.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pottsville Free Public Library | CDBook FIC (Text) | 30003008978593 | Audiobooks | Available | - |
