Pterosaurs: From Deep TimeAn epic, ambitious and page-turning mystery that will appeal to fans of The Shadow of the Wind, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and The Time Traveller's Wife London, 1896. Andrew Harrington is young, wealthy and heartbroken. His lover Marie Kelly was murdered by Jack the Ripper and he longs to turn back the clock and save her. Meanwhile, Claire Haggerty rails against the position of women in Victorian society. Forever being matched with men her family consider suitable, she yearns for a time when she can be free to love whom she choses. But hidden in the attic of popular author - and noted scientific speculator - H.G. Wells is a machine that will change everything. As their quests converge, it becomes clear that time is the problem - to escape it, to change it, might offer them the hope they need... |
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... living organism that , although completely unrelated to ammonites or dinosaurs or even pterosaurs , seems to be sufficiently similar to them in external appear- ance or supposed lifestyle that we can use it as a mental vehicle for ...
... living relatives which , naturally , come with a full complement of soft parts . The problem here is that irrespective of which of the modern groups of diapsids ― lizards , crocodiles or birds — is eventually shown to be pterosaurs ...
... living group . Another potential physiological indicator is to be found in the micro- scopic details of bone . Modern amphibians and reptiles tend to grow slowly and cyclically , leaving pronounced growth lines in their bone tissues ...