Glorious Trees : Alfred Russel Wallace in California, Paperback by Manna, Sal...
by Salvatore Manna
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Glorious Trees : Alfred Russel Wallace in California, Paperback by Manna, Salvatore John, ISBN 1545034842, ISBN-13 9781545034842, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In 1887, one of the most famous men of science in the world visited California. Englishman Alfred Russel Wallace had conceptualized around the same time as Darwin the “survival of the fittest” cornerstone of natural selection, the lynchpin for the theory of evolution. "Glorious Trees: Alfred Russel Wallace in California" chronicles for the first time his nearly two-month sojourn, from his visits to the natural wonders of Yosemite and the Calaveras Big Trees to his meetings with the state’s most eminent scientists and pivotal figures such as conservationist John Muir and politician and businessman Leland Stanford; from a highly publicized séance and his determined support of Spiritualism to his lectures on Darwinism. What Wallace did and said in California, where he was and who he met, connected him to a bewildering and sometimes bemusing range of people and subjects, from environmentalism to the beginnings of Stanford University; from the Calaveras Skull and one of the greatest hoaxes in natural history to Spiritualism and its colorful frauds; from the mechanized revolution in agriculture to, unbeknownst to him, perhaps the most famous poem in American history, “Casey at the Bat.” Significantly, his 1 American journey was the first and only speaking tour of his lifetime and his lecture on Spiritualism in San F
- Publisher: CreateSpace
- Year: 2017
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN: 9781545034842
- Condition: Fine
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