Alfred Russel Wallace
$49.84
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
5 April 2002
Summary
‘A welcome reassessment of one of the great forgotten mavericks of British science’ (Sunday Telegraph) - the man who almost scooped Darwin.
In 1858, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the remote Spice Islands, Alfred Russel Wallace 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 a fortnight, his outline and Wallace’s paper were presented jointly in Londo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780712665773 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0712665773 |
| Author: | Peter Raby |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Imprint: | Pimlico |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 5 April 2002 |
| Weight: | 488g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
Peter Raby
Peter Raby is Research Reader in English and Drama at Homerton College, Cambridge.
His previous books include:
- Fair Ophelia; a Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz
- Samuel Butler (widely praised biography)
- Bright Paradise- Victorian Scientific Travellers
- Aubrey Beardsley and the 1890s
He also writes for the theatre and is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde. He lives near Cambridge, on the edge of the Fens.
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