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Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to his friend Henry Walter Bates in 1847 after spending a week beetle-hunting with him in Wales, I begin to feel rather dissatisfied with a mere local collection, little is to be learned by it.
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"This delightfully written biography is a real find. The subject is timely, and the author brings a lively sensibility and sympathy to Wallace's situation in the evolutionary story without falling prey to over-sensationalist hysteria. Wallace had a marvelously interesting life and deserves the extensive treatment that he has been given here. The chapters concerning Wallace's travels simultaneously convey the intensity of the experience and the achievements and dangers. Further, he treats the Victorian context with a light and sure touch."--Janet Browne, author of Voyaging, a biography of Charles Darwin
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- Title Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life
- Author Peter Raby
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New Ed
- Pages 344
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-09-01
- ISBN 9780691102405 / 0691102406
- Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.38 x 0.87 in (23.37 x 16.21 x 2.21 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001087448
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- New York Times, 12/29/2002, Page 16
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