Title: Infinite tropics : an Alfred Russel Wallace anthology /
Authors: Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913; Berry, Andrew
Publisher: Verso,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Wallace, Alfred Russel.; Selection, Genetic; Biological Evolution; Evolution (Biology); Natural selection; Biological Evolution Collected Works.; Biological Evolution Personal Narratives.; Selection, Genetic Collected Works.; Selection, Genetic Personal Narratives.
Abstract: This collection comprises Wallace's best and most important writing, much of which has been out of print for over a century. Ranging from the scientific to the social, from the political to the spiritual, the selection captures the essence of a great thinker.
Contents: Preface / Stephen Jay Gould -- Editor's note -- Biographical sketch -- Very dull, ignorant, and uneducated person ; Journeys ; Intellectual life : satisfaction, retrospection and work ; Domestic life : gardening and rural walks -- Anthology -- Science -- Evolution : Beginnings ; Sarawak law ; Ternate paper ; Thunderbolt from a cloudless sky : Darwin and natural selection ; Evolution by natural selection ; Agreeing with Darwin ; Disagreeing with Darwin ; Biogeography ; Natural history and conservation ; Geography, geology, and glaciology -- Humans -- Uncivilised people ; Being apart : human evolution ; Human improvement -- Spiritualism and metaphysics -- Strange doings : conversion ; To excite to inquiry : spiritualism and science ; World viewed through the lens of spiritualism -- Travel -- Expectations ; City life ; Life in the field ; Industrious and persevering traveller ; Tedious and unfortunate : hazardous voyages ; Want of harmony between man and nature : American travels -- Social issues -- Evolution of a socialist ; Robbery of the poor by the rich : the land problem ; Public health ; Institutional reform ; Public education ; Capitalism and empire -- Coda : Wallace and Darwin.