2011, ISBN: 9780393341324

New York : W.W. Norton, 2011. Second Edition. Softcover. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially … Meer...

New York : W.W. Norton, 2011. Second Edition. Softcover. 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. 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., New York : W.W. Norton, 2011, 0<