Between Man and Beast
Subtitle: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: Mar 12, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780385534222
Description: Documents the story of mid-19th-century explorer Paul Du Chaillu, who after three years in the equatorial wilderness of West Africa emerged with definitive proof of the existence of the mythical gorilla, only to be swept up by the heated debate about Darwin's theory of evolution.
Notes: Source title: Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm