My Life a Record of Events and OpinionsRead Books Ltd, 25. mai 2016 - 504 pages This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1908 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'My Life a Record of Events and Opinions' is an autobiography that details Wallace's experiences from schoolboy to scientist. It discusses his exploration of the Amazon, his lecture tour of America, and many other interesting periods of his life. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823 in the village of Llanbadoc, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Wallace was inspired by the travelling naturalists of the day and decided to begin his exploration career collecting specimens in the Amazon rainforest. He explored the Rio Negra for four years, making notes on the peoples and languages he encountered as well as the geography, flora, and fauna. While travelling, Wallace refined his thoughts about evolution and in 1858 he outlined his theory of natural selection in an article he sent to Charles Darwin. Wallace made a huge contribution to the natural sciences and he will continue to be remembered as one of the key figures in the development of evolutionary theory. |
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... soon after he appears to have removed to St. George's, Southwark, in which parish my brother John was born in 1818. Shortly afterwards his affairs must have been getting worse, and he determined to move with his family of six children ...
... soon after he appears to have removed to St. George's, Southwark, in which parish my brother John was born in 1818. Shortly afterwards his affairs must have been getting worse, and he determined to move with his family of six children ...
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... soon as we went to live in a town. I remember only one childish accident. The cook was taking away a fryingpan with a good deal of boiling fat in it, which for some reason I wanted to see, and, stretching out my arm over it, I suppose ...
... soon as we went to live in a town. I remember only one childish accident. The cook was taking away a fryingpan with a good deal of boiling fat in it, which for some reason I wanted to see, and, stretching out my arm over it, I suppose ...
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... soon after this that I had the first of the three serious illnesses which at different periods brought me within a few hours of death in the opinion of those around me. It was a severe attack of scarlet fever, and I remember little but ...
... soon after this that I had the first of the three serious illnesses which at different periods brought me within a few hours of death in the opinion of those around me. It was a severe attack of scarlet fever, and I remember little but ...
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... remember my father reading to us Defoe's wonderful “History of the Great Plague.” I think it was soon after we went to the Old Cross house that my father became librarian to a fairly good proprietary town library, to.
... remember my father reading to us Defoe's wonderful “History of the Great Plague.” I think it was soon after we went to the Old Cross house that my father became librarian to a fairly good proprietary town library, to.
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... however, there was no sufficient basis of intelligible fact or connected reasoning to satisfy my intellect, this feeling soon left me, and has never returned. CHAPTER IV LONDON WORKERS, SECULARISTS AND OWENITES HAVING finally left.
... however, there was no sufficient basis of intelligible fact or connected reasoning to satisfy my intellect, this feeling soon left me, and has never returned. CHAPTER IV LONDON WORKERS, SECULARISTS AND OWENITES HAVING finally left.
Contents
LIFE AT LEICESTER AND NEATH | |
FOUR YEARS IN THE AMAZON VALLEY | |
LONDON AND VOYAGE TO THE EAST | |
THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO | |
THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO | |
LIFE IN LONDON 18621871SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY WORK | |
SIR CHARLES LYELL AND CHARLES DARWIN | |
HERBERT SPENCER HUXLEY AND OTHER FRIENDS | |
BRECKNOCKSHIRE AND GLAMORGANSHIRE | |
SELFEDUCATION IN SCIENCE AND LITERATURE | |
HOME LIFE AND WORK | |
A LECTURE TOUR IN AMERICA | |
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