Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life by Peter Raby

Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life

Peter Raby

344 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative reflective slow-paced
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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 b...

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