The species seekers : heroes, fools, and the mad pursuit of life on Earth / Richard Conniff
2011, Second Edition. New York : W.W. Norton. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.Includes previous owner's inscription. Item #338778
ISBN: 9780393341324
Physical description; x, 464 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-434) and index. Contents; Strange things, strange lands -- That great beast of a town -- Finding the thread -- Collecting and conquest -- Mad about shells -- Extinct -- The rising -- The river rolling westward -- "If they lost their skalps" -- The burden of specimens -- Arsenic and immortality -- "Am I not a man and a brother?" -- Craniological longings -- "A fool to nature" -- The world turned upside down -- A primate named Savage -- "Species men" -- "Labourer in the field" -- The slow power of natural forces -- The gorilla war -- Big noses and short tea-drinkers -- Industrial-scale natural history -- "The blessing of a good skirt" -- The beast in the mosquito -- "Why not try the experiment?" -- The new age of discovery -- Necrology. Subjects; Naturalists ; Biography. Natural history History 18th century. Life (Biology) Research History 18th century. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated.
Price: €12.95