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    This stirring biography--the first for many years--puts him back at center stage, where he belongs. Home Alfred Russel Wallace.

    Add to Cart. More about this book. In capturing the cross-grained complexities of this exceptional collector of beetles and birds, Raby gives readers a fascinating specimen of the most mysterious and unpredictable species of all.

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    If this well-researched and graceful biography doesn't solve the riddle of Wallace, it nicely conveys the riddle's many dimensions. Raby has worked with these sources over several years and supplemented them with examinations of unpublished notebooks and letters.

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    He has produced a congenial account of Wallace's life, major interests, and activities for the general reader. I would recommend this tastefully illustrated book to general readers as a good introduction to one of Britain's more charismatic and difficult figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Camerini, Nature.

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    Relying heavily on Wallace's published works, Raby's sympathetic, highly conventional biography relates the naturalist's life from start to finish. Larson, Washington Post Book World. Kuserk, Ecology. In his dynamicism, drive, and persistence in the field, Alfred Russel Wallace was remarkable. 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. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Knapp,S : Footsteps in the Forest.

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    Two of the largest and heaviest fruits known, however, the Brazil-nut fruit Bertholletia and durion, grow on lofty forest trees, from which they fall as soon as they are ripe, and often wound or kill the native inhabitants. Collector in the Amazon, —52; in the Malay Archipelago, — He ascended the Rio Negro system further than anyone else had done at that time, and drafted a map which proved accurate enough to become the standard for many years. US Show more US. Subject Areas.

    Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon. The Natural History Museum, London.

    Tracing Alfred Russel Wallace’s Footsteps Through the Jungles of Borneo

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    Alfred Russel Wallace. This venerable naturalist outlived Darwin and became the grand old man of science until he died in Wallace on species: "In estimating these numbers [i. The rule, therefore, I have endeavoured to adopt is, that when the difference between two forms inhabiting separate areas seems quite constant, when it can be defined in words, and when it is not confined to a single peculiarity only, I have considered such forms to be species.

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