My Life 2 Volume Set
My Life 2 Volume Set
£70.99
GBPAlfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer and biologist, best remembered as the co-discoverer, with Darwin, of natural selection. His extensive fieldwork and advocacy of the theory of evolution led to him being considered one of the nineteenth century's foremost biologists. He was later moved by a variety of personal experiences to examine the concept of spirituality, but his exploration into the potential for compatibility between spiritualism and natural selection alienated him from the scientific community. He was also a social activist, highly critical of unjust social and economic systems in nineteenth-century Britain, and one of the first prominent scientists to express concern over the environmental impact of human activity. He was a prolific writer on a wide range of topics, and this two-volume autobiography, published in 1905, shows the scope of his activities during his long life.
Product details
March 2011Multiple copy pack
9781108029605
1003 pages
323 × 250 × 70 mm
1.74kg
50 b/w illus. 2 maps
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- 1. My relatives and ancestors
- 2. Usk: my earliest memories
- 3. Hertford: the home of my boyhood
- 4. Hertford: my school life
- 5. Hertford: my home life
- 6. London workers, secularists and Owenites
- 7. Bedfordshire: surveying
- 8. Bedfordshire: Turvey
- 9. Bedfordshire: Silsoe and Leighton Buzzard
- 10. Kington and Radnorshire
- 11. Brecknockshire
- 12. Shropshire and Jack Mytton
- 13. Glamorganshire: Neath
- 14. First literary efforts
- 15. Remarks on my character at twenty-one
- 16. London and Leicester
- 17. Residence at Neath
- 18. The journey to the Amazon
- 19. 'In memoriam'
- 20. In London, and voyage to Singapore
- 21. The Malay archipelago – Singapore, Malacca, Borneo
- 22. Celebres, the Moluccas, New Guinea, Timor, Java, and Sumatra
- 23. Life in London, 1862–1871 – scientific and literary work
- 24. Home life – my friends and acquaintances – Sir Charles Lyell. Volume 2:
- 25. My friends and acquaintances – Darwin
- 26. My friends and acquaintances – Spencer, Huxley, Mivart, etc.
- 27. My friends and acquaintances – Sir James Brooke, Professor Rolleston, Mr. Aug. Mongredien, Sir Richard Owen, Dr. Richard Spruce
- 28. My friends and acquaintances – Dr. Purland, Mr. Samuel Butler, Professor Haughton
- 29. Sketch of my life and work, 1871-1886
- 30. An American lecture tour – Boston to Washington
- 31. Lecturing tour in America – Washington to San Francisco
- 32. Lecturing tour in America – California to Quebec
- 33. Literary work, etc., 1887-1905
- 34. Land nationalization to socialism, and the friends they brought me
- 35. Mesmerism to Spiritualism – correspondence with scientific and literary men
- 36. Two biological inquirers: an episode in the history of Spiritualism
- 37. Spiritualistic experiences in England and America
- 38. The anti-vaccination crusade
- 39. A chapter on money matters – earnings and losses – speculations and law-suits
- 40. My character – new ideas – predictions fulfilled
- Addendum
- Index.
