Where Australia Collides with Asia The epic voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and the origin
9 Alfred Russel Wallace – The Early Years Alfred Russel Wallace was born in 1823 into an impoverished middle-class family with s ...
Alfred Russel Wallace – The Early Years regular stream of books passed through the household which his father would read aloud t ...
Where Australia Collides with Asia Wallace delighted in the countryside, going for long walks in his spare time, but knew nothin ...
Alfred Russel Wallace – The Early Years bedroom, where a fire was lit every afternoon in winter, so that, with the exception of ...
Where Australia Collides with Asia their heroes’ lives of travel, adventure and observation of natural history were things they ...
Alfred Russel Wallace – The Early Years observer of nature to attend to; every fact he observes will make either for or against ...
Where Australia Collides with Asia Stevens who was himself a collector of British butterflies and beetles. Stevens proved an exe ...
10 Alfred Russel Wallace – The Voyages on the Amazon In April 1848 the twenty-five-year-old Alfred Russel Wallace and the twenty ...
The sombre shade, scarcely illuminated by a single direct ray even of the tropical sun, the enormous size and height of the tree ...
‘palisade’ of leaves and lianas. They knew that here, deep in the rainforest, there is no better place to observe all the plants ...
From here Wallace found some rare specimens while collecting up the Rio Negro, but soon the wet season was upon them and they re ...
Alfred Russel Wallace – The Voyages on the Amazon And murders gentle sleep. Till, wary grown and peevish, We’ve half a mind to w ...
Using smaller boats that could be hauled over the rapids, Wallace and his Indian paddlers ascended the celebrated falls of the R ...
Alfred Russel Wallace – The Voyages on the Amazon I was lost in admiration of the dazzling brilliancy of its soft downy feathers ...
Detail from the map by Alexander von Humboldt showing the Casiquiare canal joining the Orinoco River and the Rio Negro Rice beli ...
Alfred Russel Wallace – The Voyages on the Amazon scampering of small animals, and the whizzing flight of ground birds, clearing ...
health, as he found that now any exertion brought on shivering and sickness. Ten days later, on 12 July 1852, and after all his ...
into the forest and been rewarded by some unknown and beautiful species! How many places where no European had set foot but my o ...
11 Charles Darwin – At Down House Before Alfred Russel Wallace returned to England, Charles and Emma Darwin had settled in Gower ...
the Book of Genesis? Or had it evolved from something more primitive and was changing still? As the islands themselves were of r ...
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