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\nBook Summary:
\nTeenage sister s Eve and Vera never imagined their summer vacation would be spent in the Arctic\, tagging along on their mother's scientific expedition. But there' s a lot about their lives lately that hasn't been going as planned\, and t ruth be told\, their single mother might not be so happy either. Now in Si beria with a bunch of serious biologists\, Eve and Vera are just bored eno ugh to cause trouble. Fooling around in the permafrost\, they accidentally discover a perfectly preserved\, four-thousand-year-old baby mammoth\, an d things finally start to get interesting. The discovery sets off a surpri sing chain of events\, leading mother and daughters to go rogue\, pinging from the slopes of Siberia to the shores of Iceland to an exotic animal fa rm in Italy\, and resulting in the birth of a creature that could change t he world - or at least this family. The Last Animal takes readers on a wild\, entertaining\, and refreshingly different kind of journey\, o ne that explores the possibilities and perils of the human imagination on a changing planet\, what it's like to be a woman in a field dominated by m en\, and how a wondrous discovery can best be enjoyed with family. Even te enagers.
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