A Natural History of Dragons was really fun. This pseudo-memoir novel is set in an alternate universe version of Victorian England. Lady Isabella Trent, a celebrated scientist, decides at last to tell her life story: how her childhood interest in dragons blossomed into her later career as an explorer and naturalist. This book chronicles her first scientific exploration into the mountains of Vystrana with her husband and a small team of others, to study the local dragon species. Of course this task ends up being much more complicated that it seemed at first when local politics, a disappearance, a series of dragon attacks and an ancient curse come into play.