{"product_id":"9780884488606","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Charlotte's Bones : The Beluga Whale in a Farmer's Field by Erin Rounds","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 08\/05\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1849, a crew building a railroad through Charlotte, Vermont, dug up strange and beautiful bones in a farmer's field. A local naturalist asked Louis Agassiz to help identify them, and the famous scientist concluded that the bones belonged to a beluga whale. But how could a whale's skeleton have been buried so far from the ocean? The answer-that Lake Champlain had once been an arm of the sea-encouraged radical new thinking about geological time scales and animal evolution. ?Charlotte's Bones is a haunting, science-based reconstruction of how Charlotte died 11,000 years ago in a tidal marsh, how the marsh became a field, how Charlotte found a second life as the Vermont state fossil, and what messages her bones whisper to us now about the fragility of life and our changing Earth. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56420366647669,"sku":"9780884488606","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780884488606.jpg?v=1764607684","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780884488606","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}