An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Campfire Conversations

An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Campfire Conversations with Alfred Russell Wallace

An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles follows the Victorian-era explorations of Alfred Russel Wallace through Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. While Wallace is recognized as co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection (and was perhaps deliberately sidelined by Darwin) he was also an edgy social commentator and a voracious collector of â€œnatural productions". Sochaczewski, author of Sultan and the Mermaid Queen and co-author of Soul of the Tiger, has created an innovative form of storytelling - combining incisive biography and personal travelogue. He examines themes about which Wallace cared deeply -- womenâ€™s power, why boys leave home, the need to collect, our relationship with other species, humanityâ€™s need to control nature and how this leads to nature destruction, arrogance, the role of ego and greed, white-brown and brown-brown colonialism, serendipity, passion, mysticism -- and interprets them through his own filter with layers of humor, history, social commentary and sometimes-outrageous personal tales.

Country USA
Brand Editions Didier Millet
Manufacturer Didier Millet
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9789814385206
ReleaseDate 2012-12-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9789814385206

Country	USA
Brand	Editions Didier Millet
Manufacturer	Didier Millet
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9789814385206
ReleaseDate	2012-12-16
UnitCount	1
EANs	9789814385206

An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Campfire Conversations with Alfred Russell Wallace

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