9780691006956 - Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life de Raby, Peter (15 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover w/DJ. Condición: Very Good/Very Good. Black & White Photographs Ilustrador. First Edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Very Good/Very Good. (2001). First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 340 pp. .

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Princeton University Press Historical & Reference Books (Princeton University Press) Alfred Russel Wallace - A Life (NM)Manufacturer: Princeton University PressProduct Line: Historical & Reference Books (Princeton University Press)Type: HardcoverCopyright Date: 2001Author: Peter RabyPage Count: 352Please review the condition and any condition notes for the exact condition of this item. All pictures are stock photos. The condition of the item you will receive is NM. Our grading system is explained in the terms of sale section of our bookseller page. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. Product Description:n 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.

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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover 2001, 1st edition. Dust jacket and boards in fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. (340 pages).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First Edition. First printing, with complete number line. 8vo in black cloth. Near Fine in like dustjacket.

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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First U.S. Edition. xii, 340pp w notes, bibliography and index. Two unpaginated, indexed sections of bw plates, further indexed illustrations in text, two indexed maps. Black cloth w crisp gold lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. Colour illustrated DJ is clean and without wear. Octavo.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in DJ; 340pp; DJ clean, bright & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, previous owner's blindstamp to FFEP, text unmarked, binding is tight, Near Fine/Near Fine condition. Biography of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator, who conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection independently of Charles Darwin. Illustrated.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, 1st Printing. 340 pp. and Index. This stirring biography--the first for many years-puts him back at center stage, where he belongs. No jacket. No unwanted marks. "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.

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