Alfred Russel Wallace Peter Raby Pimlico Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Theatre

In 1858 Aged Thirty-Five Weak With Malaria Isolated The Remote Spice Islands Alfred Russel Wallace Wrote To Charles Darwin: He Had Said Excitedly Worked Out A Theory Of Natural Selection Darwin Was Aghast - His Work Decades About Be Scooped Within Fortnight Outline And Wallace\ S Paper Were Presented Jointly London Year Later Still At Opposite Side World On Origin Species Published None Darwin\ Advantages Or Connections Born Usk Gwent 1823 Left School Fourteen Mid-Twenties Spent Four Years Amazon Collecting For Museums Wealthy Patrons Only Lose All Finds Shipboard Fire Mid-Atlantic Vowed Never Travel Again Yet Two Off East Indies Beginning An Eight-Year Trek Over Thousands Miles Here Discovered Countless Unknown Identified First Time Point Divide Between Asian Australian Fauna \ Line\ Vigour Sensitivity Peter Raby Reveals As Courageous Unconventional Explorer After Return Plunged Into Variety Controversies Staying Vital Alert Until Death Age 90 1913 Gentle Self-Effacing Remarkably Free From Racism That Blighted So Many Contemporaries Is One Neglected Giants History Science Ideas This Stirring Biography Puts Him Centre Stage Where Belongs Σελίδες: 352 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm