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223 CHAPTER XVI LONDON AND LEICESTER . . . . . . . . 229 CHAPTER XVII . . . .
. RESIDENCE AT NEATH RESIDENCE AT NEATH . . . . . 241 CHAPTER XVIII
THE JOURNEY TO THE AMAZON . . . . . . . 264 “ IN MEMORIAM ” CHAPTER XIX .
223 CHAPTER XVI LONDON AND LEICESTER . . . . . . . . 229 CHAPTER XVII . . . .
. RESIDENCE AT NEATH RESIDENCE AT NEATH . . . . . 241 CHAPTER XVIII
THE JOURNEY TO THE AMAZON . . . . . . . 264 “ IN MEMORIAM ” CHAPTER XIX .
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When I went to the Amazon , he took a small dairy - farm at too high a rent , and
not making this pay , in 1849 he emigrated to California at the height of the first
rush for gold , joined several mining camps , and was moderately successful .
When I went to the Amazon , he took a small dairy - farm at too high a rent , and
not making this pay , in 1849 he emigrated to California at the height of the first
rush for gold , joined several mining camps , and was moderately successful .
Page 195
... mind , a weird and mysterious charm , which was extended even to our native
species , and which , I believe , had its share in producing that longing for the
tropics which a few years later was satisfied in the equatorial forests of the
Amazon .
... mind , a weird and mysterious charm , which was extended even to our native
species , and which , I believe , had its share in producing that longing for the
tropics which a few years later was satisfied in the equatorial forests of the
Amazon .
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... and though I should , no doubt , have given some attention to science , it
seems very unlikely that I should have ever undertaken what at that time seemed
rather a wild scheme , a journey to the almost unknown forests of the Amazon in
order ...
... and though I should , no doubt , have given some attention to science , it
seems very unlikely that I should have ever undertaken what at that time seemed
rather a wild scheme , a journey to the almost unknown forests of the Amazon in
order ...
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... my journey to the Amazon . The other and equally important circumstance was
my reading Malthus , without which work I should probably not have hit upon the
theory of natural selection and obtained full credit for its independent discovery .
... my journey to the Amazon . The other and equally important circumstance was
my reading Malthus , without which work I should probably not have hit upon the
theory of natural selection and obtained full credit for its independent discovery .
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| Title | My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köide My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Author | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead, 1905 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 juuli 2007 |
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