Alfred Russel Wallace
Subtitle: A Life
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780691102405
Subjects: Biography: general; Evolution; History of science; c 1800 to c 1900; General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology; Biological Sciences; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Scientists - General
First sentence: Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to his friend Henry Walter Bates in 1847 after spending a week beetle-hunting with him in Wales, I begin to feel rather dissatisfied with a mere local collection, little is to be learned by it.