A bone from a dry sea
By: Peter Dickinson
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780440219286
Subjects: Fiction; Juvenile fiction; Prehistoric peoples; Fossils; Paleontology
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.
Notes: "A Laurel-Leaf book".

"Originally published: Great Britain, Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1992.