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Ship fever

Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: New York : Norton, ©1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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One novella and seven stories dealing with science and set in the 19th Century. In The Behavior of the Hawkweeds, the spirit of Mendel, the discoverer of the laws of heredity, haunts a geneticist of whose work Mendel disapproves, in Birds with No Feet, Darwin's theory of evolution provides a zoologist with consolation for his personal misfortunes, while in The English Pupil, Linnaeus, who brought order to botany,  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Andrea Barrett
ISBN: 039303853X 9780393038538 0393316009 9780393316001
OCLC Number: 32431730
Description: 254 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: The behavior of the hawkweeds --
The English pupil --
The littoral zone --
Rare bird --
Soroche --
Birds with no feet --
The Marburg sisters --
Ship fever.
Responsibility: Andrea Barrett.

Abstract:

One novella and seven stories dealing with science and set in the 19th Century. In The Behavior of the Hawkweeds, the spirit of Mendel, the discoverer of the laws of heredity, haunts a geneticist of whose work Mendel disapproves, in Birds with No Feet, Darwin's theory of evolution provides a zoologist with consolation for his personal misfortunes, while in The English Pupil, Linnaeus, who brought order to botany, must deal with the mental disorder of his advancing age. By the author of The Middle Kingdom.

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