The Peppered MothA portrait of four generations of one family, this story explores themes of inheritance, DNA, the individual's place in history and fate. It spans from Bessie Bawtry, a small child living in a Yorkshire mining town in 1905, to her granddaughter, listening to a lecture on genetic inheritance. |
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... earth , the dregs of the earth . ( This is how Ellen Bawtry spoke of her neighbours . ) The streets might at any moment crack and open in terrible fissures , and the menace beneath would grab one's ankle and pull one down , however ...
... earth , the dregs of the earth . ( This is how Ellen Bawtry spoke of her neighbours . ) The streets might at any moment crack and open in terrible fissures , and the menace beneath would grab one's ankle and pull one down , however ...
Page 69
... Earth Recovery Project . Stone Age Man might have been blasted to pieces by the landfill oper- ation , or he might have lain secretly in his sealed tomb for ever , above the new wetland gardens , the new School Centre , the ( as yet ...
... Earth Recovery Project . Stone Age Man might have been blasted to pieces by the landfill oper- ation , or he might have lain secretly in his sealed tomb for ever , above the new wetland gardens , the new School Centre , the ( as yet ...
Page 320
... earth , and of the lifeless shore beyond all singing . This was the shore that Bessie Barron had reached . Un inerte rivage au - delà de tout chant . Chrissie gazed at the words on the page , and part of her mind read them . Cracked earth ...
... earth , and of the lifeless shore beyond all singing . This was the shore that Bessie Barron had reached . Un inerte rivage au - delà de tout chant . Chrissie gazed at the words on the page , and part of her mind read them . Cracked earth ...
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