The great unknown
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Goshen Public Library & Historical Society - Adult Fiction | FIC Kingman | On Shelf |
Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Fiction | KINGMAN | On Shelf |
Nanuet Public Library - Adult Fiction | Kingman | On Shelf |
Orangeburg Library - Adult Fiction | Kingman | On Shelf |
Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Fiction | FIC Kingman, Peg | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2020].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"What is your name? Where did you come from? And where are you going? In this immersive novel set in the 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 on 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 wellguarded secret. Another book, roundly ignored, neatly sets forth in an obscure appendix the principle that will become the centerpiece of Charles Darwin's 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"--,Provided by publisher
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kingman, P. (2020). The great unknown . W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kingman, Peg. 2020. The Great Unknown. W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kingman, Peg. The Great Unknown W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kingman, Peg. The Great Unknown W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
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