Alfred Russel Wallace : : A Life /

Alfred Russel Wallace : : A Life / / Peter Raby.

In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the Spice Islands, wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection. Darwin was aghast--his work of decades was about to be scooped. Within two weeks, his outline and Wallace&...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Raby, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2001
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 37 b/w plates. 23 line illus. 2 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Maps
  • Foreword and Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Evolution of a Naturalist
  • 3. Apprenticeship on the Amazon
  • 4. Hunting the White Umbrella Bird
  • 5. Planning the Next Expedition
  • 6. The Land of the Orang-utan
  • 7. Heading East
  • 8. In Search of Paradise Birds
  • 9. The Return of the Wanderer
  • 10. Wallace Transformed
  • 11. Man and Mind
  • 12. The Big Trees
  • 13. The Future of the Race
  • 14. The Last Orchard
  • 15. The Old Hero
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Sources and Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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