Radical by Nature : : The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace / / James T. Costa.
A major new biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and co-discoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was perhaps the most famed naturalist of the Victorian age. His expeditions to remote Amazonia and southeast Asia were the stuff of legend. A collector o...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (552 p.) :; 36 color + 62 b/w illus. 3 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- MAPS
- CHAPTER 1 A HAPPY BUT DOWNWARDLY MOBILE FAMILY
- CHAPTER 2 TAKING MEASURE IN THE BORDERLANDS
- CHAPTER 3 BEETLING AND BIG QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 4 PARADISE GAINED . . .
- CHAPTER 5 . . . AND PARADISE LOST
- CHAPTER 6 DOWN BUT NOT OUT
- CHAPTER 7 SARAWAK AND THE LAW
- CHAPTER 8 CROSSING THE LINE(S)
- CHAPTER 9 EUREKA: Wallace Triumphant
- CHAPTER 10 ISLAND HOPPER
- CHAPTER 11 FIRST DARWINIAN
- CHAPTER 12 A TALE OF TWO WALLACES?
- CHAPTER 13 A SOCIALLY ENGAGED SCIENTIST
- CHAPTER 14 ONWARD AND UPWARD
- CODA
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- FIGURE CREDITS
- INDEX