
A Bone from a Dry Sea
1993
First Published
3.49
Average Rating
200
Number of Pages
Two parallel stories present a young prehistoric female who is instrumental in advancing her people and a modern-day girl who joins her father, a paleontologist, in discovering important fossil remains in Africa. Reprint.
Avg Rating
3.49
Number of Ratings
569
5 STARS
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3 STARS
27%
2 STARS
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Author

Peter Dickinson
Author · 58 books
Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL was a prolific English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories. Peter Dickinson lived in Hampshire with his second wife, author Robin McKinley. He wrote more than fifty novels for adults and young readers. He won both the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Award twice, and his novel The Blue Hawk won The Guardian Award in 1975.