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Author:

Conniff, Richard, 1951-

Title:

The species seekers : heroes, fools, and the mad pursuit of life on Earth / Richard Conniff.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

x, 464 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Naturalists--Biography.
Natural history--History--18th century.
Life (Biology)--History--History--18th century.

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.

ISBN:

0393068544
9780393068542

LCCN:

2010024532

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

D8PD522 -- North Liberty Community Library (North Liberty)