TY - BOOK AU - Raby,Peter TI - Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life SN - 9780691222431 AV - QH31.W2 U1 - 508/.092 B PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ PB - Princeton University Press KW - Naturalists KW - England KW - Biography KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology KW - bisacsh KW - Alfred Newton KW - Alfred Russel Wallace KW - Annie Besant KW - Asa Gray KW - Biology KW - Bolivia KW - Borneo KW - Charles Darwin KW - Charles Lyell KW - Collecting KW - Correspondent KW - Curator KW - Darwinism KW - Entomology KW - Explanation KW - Exposition (narrative) KW - Francis Galton KW - Fruit tree KW - Geography KW - George Romanes KW - Gertrude Jekyll KW - Godalming KW - Henry Walter Bates KW - His Family KW - Illustration KW - Insect KW - Lecture KW - Lepidoptera KW - Literature KW - Narrative KW - Natural selection KW - New Guinea KW - Newspaper KW - Orangutan KW - Ornithology KW - Pamphlet KW - Philosopher KW - Phrenology KW - Plumage KW - Poetry KW - Principles of Geology KW - Publication KW - Quinine KW - Royal Commission KW - Royal Geographical Society KW - Sarawak KW - Scientist KW - Setback (architecture) KW - Sexual selection KW - Shirt KW - Slavery KW - Social Statics KW - Social issue KW - Spruce KW - Suggestion KW - Sulawesi KW - Surveying KW - The Naturalist on the River Amazons KW - The Other Hand KW - Toucan KW - Travels (book) KW - Trogon KW - Vaccination KW - Vegetable KW - Vegetation KW - White people KW - William Crookes KW - Writing KW - Year KW - Zoology N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Maps --; Foreword and Acknowledgements --; 1. Introduction --; 2. The Evolution of a Naturalist --; 3. Apprenticeship on the Amazon --; 4. Hunting the White Umbrella Bird --; 5. Planning the Next Expedition --; 6. The Land of the Orang-utan --; 7. Heading East --; 8. In Search of Paradise Birds --; 9. The Return of the Wanderer --; 10. Wallace Transformed --; 11. Man and Mind --; 12. The Big Trees --; 13. The Future of the Race --; 14. The Last Orchard --; 15. The Old Hero --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Sources and Selected Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - In 1858, Alfred Russel Wallace, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the Spice Islands, 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 two weeks, his outline and Wallace's paper were presented jointly in London. A year later, with Wallace still on the opposite side of the globe, Darwin published On the Origin of Species.This new biography of Wallace traces the development of one of the most remarkable scientific travelers, naturalists, and thinkers of the nineteenth century. With vigor and sensitivity, Peter Raby reveals his subject as a courageous, unconventional explorer and a man of exceptional humanity. He draws more extensively on Wallace's correspondence than has any previous biographer and offers a revealing yet balanced account of the relationship between Wallace and Darwin.Wallace lacked Darwin's advantages. A largely self-educated native of Wales, he spent four years in the Amazon in his mid-twenties collecting specimens for museums and wealthy patrons, only to lose his finds in a shipboard fire in the mid-Atlantic. He vowed never to travel again. Yet two years later he was off to the East Indies on a vast eight-year trek; here he discovered countless species and identified the point of divide between Asian and Australian fauna, 'Wallace's Line.'After his return, he plunged into numerous controversies and published regularly until his death at the age of ninety, in 1913. He penned a classic volume on his travels, founded the discipline of biogeography, promoted natural selection, and produced a distinctive account of mind and consciousness in man. Sensitive and self-effacing, he was an ardent socialist--and spiritualist. Wallace is one of the neglected giants of the history of science and ideas. This stirring biography--the first for many years--puts him back at center stage, where he belongs UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691222431?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691222431 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691222431/original ER -