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Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon

出版社： Frances Lincoln

書林書號：

20167264

作者：

Knapp, Sandra

定價：

480

會員價：

$408

ISBN：

9780565093303

出版年份：

2013

裝訂：

平裝

總頁數：

183

本書介紹

Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon: Footsteps in the Forest

華萊士是英國著名的博物學家、探險家、地理學家、人類學家與生物學家。本書記錄著他在亞馬遜叢林冒險的見聞，華萊士因他提出的「natural selection物競天擇」理論而著名，也促使之後達爾文出版的《物種起源》中的演化論理論。

In 1848 British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace set off for Brazil where he was to spend four years exploring the wildest parts of the Amazon basin. This is an enthralling account of his adventures. It describes the triumphs and disasters and the discoveries that were to lead him to one of the biggest and most controversial ideas of the nineteenth century. Alfred Russel Wallace is justly famous for his discoveries in Southeast Asia, from where he wrote to Charles Darwin outlining his theory of evolution by natural selection. His career as a tropical naturalist, however, began in the Amazon. Wallace concentrated his collecting on the Rio Negro and the Rio Vaupés and his collections and observations proved of great value to the scientific community in England. On his return home in 1852 disaster struck. The ship on which he was travelling caught fire and all his precious collections were destroyed. As he fled the ship he managed to salvage a small tin box with a few delicate pencil drawings. Wallace's Amazonian adventure is told here, using mainly his own words and illustrated with these delicate drawings. He went on to become one of the defining figures of Victorian biology, and this is the story of his beginning.