Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life by Peter Raby ISBN 13: 9780691006956

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and white photographic reproductions. Very good+ in very good+ dustjacket.

Princeton University Press, 2001-08-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Green pictorial dust jacket, black spine titles, black cloth over boards with gold spine titles, slight shelf wear,340 pages, clean unmarked content with tight bonding.

Princeton University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0691006954 . Hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page, book is in excellent condition, no remarkable flaws, jacket is also in excellent condition with one minor flaw only: mild rubbing to the glossy surface on the rear panel, a professional (removable) mylar cover is included for this fine gift copy, illustrated, includes Sources and a Selected Bibliography, "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"; 340 pages .

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Princeton University Press, 2001. "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's paper were presented jointly in London. A year later, with Wallace still on the opposite side of the globe, Darwin published On the Origin of Species. This new biography of Wallace traces the development of one of the most remarkable scientific travelers, naturalists, and thinkers of the nineteenth century. With vigor and sensitivity, Peter Raby reveals his subject as a courageous, unconventional explorer and a man of exceptional humanity. He draws more extensively on Wallace's correspondence than has any previous biographer and offers a revealing yet balanced account of the relationship between Wallace and Darwin. Wallace lacked Darwin's advantages. A… Read more

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