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Girls Who Looked Under Rocks: The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists

by Jeannine Atkins · 2000

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Profiles the lives and influences of six female naturalists: Maria Sibylla Merian, Anna Botsford Comstock, Frances Hamerstrom, Rachel Carson, Miriam Rothschild, and Jane Goodall.

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naturenatureMore like thisLess of thiswomenwomenMore like thisLess of this
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childrensyoung adult
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short · 64 pages

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