Alfred Russel Wallace

Letters from the Malay Archipelago
Herausgeber: Wyhe, John Van; Rookmaaker, Kees

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume of newly transcribed letters documents the travels of the Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, during which he famously discovered natural selection independently of Darwin. Vivid with detail, the letters are fully annotated and accompanied by an introduction with a newly reconstructed itinerary.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 167mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 687g
• ISBN-13: 9780199683994
• ISBN-10: 0199683999
• Artikelnr.: 37602366

Autorenporträt

John van Wyhe is a historian of science, Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Biological Sciences & History and a Fellow of Tembusu College at the National University of Singapore. He is the founder and Director of Darwin Online and Wallace Online, Professorial Fellow of Charles Darwin University, Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and a Scientific Associate of the Natural History Museum (London). He lectures and broadcasts on Darwin, Wallace, and the history of science around the world. Kees Rookmaaker is a biologist specialising in the history of zoology. He has worked for the past eight years on Darwin and Wallace, including bibliography and transcriptions of notebooks and letters. He has also edited detailed surveys of all letters received by the Museum of Zoology, University in Cambridge during the 19th century. He is the author of over 200 papers and several books. He received the Founder's Medal of the Society for the History of Natural History.