The Species Seekers
Subtitle: heroes, fools, and the mad pursuit of life on Earth
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; W.W. Norton
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780393068542
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Strange things, strange lands; title: That great beast of a town; title: Finding the thread; title: Collecting and conquest; title: Mad about shells; title: Extinct; title: The rising; title: The river rolling westward; title: "If they lost their skalps"; title: The burden of specimens; title: Arsenic and immortality; title: "Am I not a man and a brother?"; title: Craniological longings; title: "A fool to nature"; title: The world turned upside down; title: A primate named Savage; title: "Species men"; title: "Labourer in the field"; title: The slow power of natural forces; title: The gorilla war; title: Big noses and short tea-drinkers; title: Industrial-scale natural history; title: "The blessing of a good skirt"; title: The beast in the mosquito; title: "Why not try the experiment?"; title: The new age of discovery; title: Necrology