A sample signed book is shown below (click on the thumbnail photo to see a larger version). See Travis Graalman’s film about Museum Geologist Paddy Howe narrated by Tracy Chevalier.Īt our 2009 Mary Anning Day, Tracy Chevalier gave a reading from Remarkable Creatures and signed books using ink made from fossilised squid ink sacks recovered and prepared by Museum Geologist Paddy Howe. See the BBC’s slideshow about Mary anning narrated by Tracy Chevalier. You can buy the book in our shop and support Lyme Regis Museum.įind out more about ‘Remarkable Creatures’ on Tracy Chevalier’s website. It has sold almost 4 million copies worldwide and was made into a film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson.
Tracy also contributed to a highly successful museum event, Mary Anning Day, in 2009, and we are thrilled that she is now a Patron of the Museum Friends.īorn in America in 1962, Tracy Chevalier is perhaps best-known for her book Girl with a Pearl Earring, which won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award. In this remarkable debut based on actual events, as a team of male scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, the daughter of one of them decides to collect the 'objectionable' words they omit.
Much of her research for Remarkable Creatures was done in Lyme and Tracy went on many fossil walks with our geologist Paddy Howe.
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