num_pages: 370
description: It is 1878 and Captain John Paley Dawkins, an English amateur palaeontologist, has staked his meagre inheritance upon an expedition to find a pterodactyl, set up by geologist Sheldon Prescott. Wary of Prescott's wilful daughter Lilian, they are soon forced together in a life-threatening quest.
language: English
title: The bonehunter
titlecomplete: The bonehunter
genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 68
publisher: Little, Brown And Company