Andrea Jean - Baptiste - A Hundred Million Years And A Day - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: FROM THE Winner OF THE PRIX Goncourt 2023 Described as 'unforgettable by the Mail on Sunday A Hundred Million Years and a Day is a pocket - sized epic adventure story of a professor's journey to an Alpine glacier. Powerful Sunday Times When he hears a story about a huge dinosaur fossil locked deep inside an Alpine glacier university professor Stan finds a childhood dream reignited. Whatever it takes he is determined to find the buried treasure. But Stan is no mountaineer and must rely on the help of old friend Umberto who brings his eccentric young assistant Peter and cautious mountain guide Gio. Time is short: they must complete their expedition before winter sets in. As bonds are forged and tested on the mountainside and the lines between determination and folly are blurred the hazardous quest for the Earth's lost creatures becomes a journey into Stan's own past. This breathless heartbreaking epic - in - miniature speaks to the adventurer within us all.
Title: A Hundred Million Years And A Day
Author(s): Andrea Jean - Baptiste
Publisher: Gallic Books
Barcode: 9781910477878
Pages: 168 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 5/7/2021
Category: Mountains