num_pages: 528
description: It is 1878 and Captain John Paley Dawkins, an English amateur palaeontologist, has staked his meager inheritance upon an expedition to find a pterodactyl, set up by geologist Sheldon Prescott. Wary of Prescott's willful daughter Lilian, they are soon forced together in a life-threatening quest.
language: English
title: The Bonehunter
titlecomplete: The Bonehunter
genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 68
publisher: Little, Brown Book Group