Infinite Tropics - An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology (Paperback)

Alfred Russel Wallace's reputation has been based on the fact that, at age thirty-five and stricken with malaria in the Moluccan Islands, he stumbled independently upon on the theory of natural selection. Andrew Berry's anthology rescue's Wallace's legacy, showing Wallace to be far more than just the co-discoverer of natural selection. Wallace was a brilliant and wide-ranging scientist, a passionate social reformer and a gifted writer. The eloquence that has made his The Malay Archipelago a classic of travel writing is a prominent feature too of his extraordinarily forward-thinking writing on socialism, imperialism and pacifism. Wallace's opinions on women's suffrage, on land reform, on the roles of the church and aristocracy in a parliamentary democracy, on publicly funded education-to name a few of the issues he addressed-remain as fresh and as topical today as they were when they were written.

General

Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2003
First published:	December 2003
Authors:	Alfred Russel Wallace
Editors:	Andrew Berry
Foreword by:	Stephen Jay Gould
Dimensions:	229 x 150 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	448
ISBN-13:	978-1-85984-478-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution
LSN:	1-85984-478-2
Barcode:	9781859844786

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