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A bone from a dry sea

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Description: In two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe becomes instrumental in advancing the lot of her people, and the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in Africa when important fossil remains are discovered.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1993.
Call number: 660971
Creator: Dickinson, Peter (1927-2015)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0385308213; 9780385308212
Provenance: Purchased from Kim Stanley Robinson, August 2025. From the library of Kim Stanley Robinson.
Dimensions: 22 cm
Associated people: Robinson, Kim Stanley,

A box of nothing

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After the man in the closed, empty shop gives James a box of nothing, he finds himself in the Dump, a bizarre world filled with strangely altered rubbish and large intelligent rats.

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Po's story

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As a member of the Kin, a band of people living in prehistoric times, young Po wants to prove his bravery but finds that doing so requires overcoming great obstacles.

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Mana's story

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Mana and the other Kin, a band of people living in prehistoric times, search for food on the edge of a great marsh and fight a new enemy, the dangerous killers whom they name the demon men.

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In 1989, Letta, an English teenager, learns of her heritage from her grandfather, great-grandson of the legendary hero of Varina, as he becomes involved in the nationalistic political struggles in Eastern Europe.

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Beach and buildings, Hollywood by the Sea, Oxnard(?).1928

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A panoramic view of a beach with widely spaced buildings. There are many automobiles parked next to a road that runs parallel to the water. The area in the foreground, though far from the beach, is sandy, with only sporadic areas of plants.

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Photographs of the Doheny Scientific Expedition to the Hava Supai Canyon, Northern Arizona

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This set of photographs depicts the Doheny Scientific Expedition in Northern Arizona, October-November, 1924. Views include the expedition party in a group portrait (item 63), traveling with equipment on horseback, and conducting archeological fieldwork. Also seen are Havasupai Indians; scenery of the Grand Canyon and Havasu Canyon, Arizona; petroglyphs, and several views of fossil impressions in stone, which some claimed to be mammal footprints. Identified people in photographs are Samuel Hubbard (expedition director), Art Metzger (assistant), Bud Clawson (guide), Charles W. Gilmore (paleontologist), Joseph F. Roop (sculptor), Fred V. Shaw, Robert L. Carson (photographer), and Elvin T. Scoyen. Ralph Arnold (1875-1961), a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, was not an official participant in the expedition but appears in some photographs, including one where he is seen photographing members of the party. Two photographs of a woman on horseback are identified as "Mrs. Arnold."

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