Alfred Russell Wallace
Language: English
Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 2001
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
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This hardback has paper which is browning towards the edges. Aside from this the book is fine in an unclipped dust wrapper. wt. 636g. xi,340pp. This book has been carefully described by an experienced, independent, bookdealer, it is not for sale on other sites and the pictures are photographs of the actual book.
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- Title
- Alfred Russell Wallace
- Author
- Raby, Peter
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus, London
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0701168382
- ISBN 13
- 9780701168384
- Illustrator
- Illustrated
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 636 grams
- Seller catalogs
- Natural History
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Review
"Raby's accomplished study is the first in some years and adds greater insight into this likeable underdog's personality."--Publishers Weekly
"Even by Victorian standards, Wallace was a titan of self-effacement. . . . If this well-researched and graceful biography doesn't solve the riddle of Wallace, it nicely conveys the riddle's many dimensions. . . . [Wallace was] a man, in short, who occasionally struck colleagues as a crackpot; and yet, in the end, a man who was in some ways more admirable than the much-admired Darwin."--Robert Wright, New York Times Book Review
"Wallace was the author of some 20 books and 700 other publications. . . . Raby has worked with these sources over several years and supplemented them with examinations of unpublished notebooks and letters. . . . He has produced a congenial account of Wallace's life, major interests, and activities for the general reader."--Gareth Nelson, Science
"Peter Raby's life of Wallace catches the charm, daring, and high- seriousness of the age, while scrupulously measuring Wallace's distinction as a man and a scientist."--Guy Davenport, New Criterion
"[It] provides a focused and balanced narrative of Wallace's life, in which his exotic travels are placed in the context of his eventful life story. . . .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."--Jane R. Camerini, Nature
"A well-researched, graceful biography."--New York Times Book Review
"A revealing look at a humble hero of science."--Library Journal
"An engaging account of Wallace's long, eventful, and extraordinarily productive life."--Richard Milner, Natural History
"This authoritative biography is an excellent and inspiring read."--Hannah Atkins, New Scientist
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