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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913. Alfred Russel Wallace reader. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 (OCoLC)606806281 |
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| Named Person: | Alfred Russel Wallace; Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alfred Russel Wallace; Jane R Camerini |
| ISBN: | 0801867819 9780801867811 0801867894 9780801867897 |
| OCLC Number: | 45804777 |
| Description: | xix, 219 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Biographical sketch -- Wales -- The Amazon -- The Malay Archipelago -- The World. |
| Series Title: | Center books in natural history. |
| Other Titles: | Selections. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Jane R. Camerini ; [foreword by David Quammen]. |
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Abstract:
Long overshadowed by his contemporaries Charles Darwin and Thomas H. Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace was an English naturalist and pioneer evolutionist who researched biological diversity through extensive exploration and travel. This study seeks to reintroduce Wallace to a general readership.
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<p>"[Jane Camerini]... is probably best known for her informative papers on 'Wallace's Line'... These papers, and others on Wallace and 19th-century biogeography, well qualify her to edit this eclectic collection of Wallace's very readable prose... Camerini reveals his essence in a nutshell... After reading these excerpts from his books and articles, you will want to go to your library and read the originals in full." -- Duncan M. Porter, Bioscience Read more...
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