The Heretic in Darwin’s Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace

Ross A. Slotten

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Paper, 648 pages, 19 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-13011-0
$36.00 / £25.00

June, 2004
Cloth, 648 pages, 19 illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-13010-3
$85.00 / £58.50

Introduction

Origins of a Heretic

The Struggle for Existence

A Daring Plan

Travels on the Amazon

And the Rio Negro

Disaster at Sea . . . and a Civilized Interlude

The Malay Archipelago

The Mechanism Revealed

Beautiful Dreamer

A Turn Toward the Unknowable

The Olympian Heights and the Beginnings of the Fall

Wallace and The Descent of Man

The Descent of Wallace

The War on Spiritualism

Phoenix from the Ashes

To the Land of Epidemic Delusions

The New Nemesis

Thoroughly Unpopular Causes

Satisfaction, Retrospection, and Work

A National Treasure Celebrated

Biographical Index

Related Subjects

• Evolution

About the Author

Ross A. Slotten, M.D., is a family practitioner in private practice in Chicago. He is a Wallace enthusiast and has retraced a number of Wallace's travels in Indonesia.

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