The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist Langley Ceinwen
The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist Langley Ceinwen Aspiring young naturalist Celeste Rossan has a plan. But when her shipping-merchant father loses everything in a terrible storm, Celeste's…
Specifikacia The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist Langley Ceinwen
The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist Langley Ceinwen
Aspiring young naturalist Celeste Rossan has a plan. But when her shipping-merchant father loses everything in a terrible storm, Celeste's hopes of ever leaving the suffocating society of La Baie Dore are dashed.Or are they?Faced with a life of servitude, Celeste makes the only decision that makes any sense to her: to stage her death and run away to Paris disguised as a boy. Come the spring of 1867 she'll travel to the Exposition Universelle in Paris and find a mentor, then spend the rest of her life discovering the unknown and breaking barriers in the male-dominated scientific community.
In desperation, Celeste seeks refuge in an abandoned chateau, only to find that she's trapped herself inside the den of an unknown species - a deadly predator with an intelligence that But the elements overwhelm her before she can make it five miles from home.