My Life - A Record of Events and Opinions

Klappentext This autobiography of eminent Victorian scientist! explorer and social activist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823 1913) was published in 1905. Zusammenfassung Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer and biologist, best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection. He was also a social activist, spiritualist, and early environmentalist. This 1905 autobiography recounts his long career, travels, and acquaintance with the leading scientists of his day. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. My relatives and ancestors; 2. Usk: my earliest memories; 3. Hertford: the home of my boyhood; 4. Hertford: my school life; 5. Hertford: my home life; 6. London workers, secularists and Owenites; 7. Bedfordshire: surveying; 8. Bedfordshire: Turvey; 9. Bedfordshire: Silsoe and Leighton Buzzard; 10. Kington and Radnorshire; 11. Brecknockshire; 12. Shropshire and Jack Mytton; 13. Glamorganshire: Neath; 14. First literary efforts; 15. Remarks on my character at twenty-one; 16. London and Leicester; 17. Residence at Neath; 18. The journey to the Amazon; 19. 'In memoriam'; 20. In London, and voyage to Singapore; 21. The Malay archipelago - Singapore, Malacca, Borneo; 22. Celebres, the Moluccas, New Guinea, Timor, Java, and Sumatra; 23. Life in London, 1862-1871 - scientific and literary work; 24. Home life - my friends and acquaintances - Sir Charles Lyell.

Product details

• Authors: Wallace Alfred Russel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.06.2011
• EAN: 9781108029582
• ISBN: 978-1-108-02958-2
• No. of pages: 504
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics; My Life 2 Volume Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Autobiography: science, technology & medicine, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, Evolution / Evolutionary biology