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Barnaby Rudge by Clive (EDT) Iain (EDT); Hurst Jon (EDT); McCalman Charles; Mee Dickens
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Darwin's Armada by Iain Mccalman
Category: Australian History
Darwin's Armanda is both a gripping adventure story and a brilliantly enlightening work of history, for the first time portraying the Darwinian revolution as a collective enterprise forged in Australasia. Four remarkable men: Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Wallace, did what one ...Show more
Darwin's Armada - Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution by Iain McCalman
Category: Reference
Award-winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his staunchest supporters: Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace. Beginning with the somber morning of April 26, 1882--the day of Darwin's funeral--Darwin's Armada steps back and recounts the lives and scie ...Show more
Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution by Iain McCalman
Category: Science
Award-winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his staunchest supporters: Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace. Beginning with the somber morning of April 26, 1882-the day of Darwin's funeral-Darwin's Armada steps back and recounts the lives and scient ...Show more
Darwin's Armada : How Four Voyagers to Australasia Won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the World by Iain McCalman
Category: History
Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle, 1831-36Sent to Cambridge to join the clergy, the young Darwin emerged with a passion for naturalism and an invitation to sail on a naval survey vessel to South America, New Zealand and Australia. That journey would change his life, and the course of modern science. Joseph Hoo ...Show more
Delia Akeley and the Monkey: A Human-Animal Story of Captivity, Patriarchy and Nature by Iain McCalman
Category: Biography
By telling this story, Iain McCalman illuminates much about human-animal relations and the tyranny of gender inequality. He reinstates a twentieth century story of a dedicated amateur primatologist and her adopted Vervet monkey. On an East-African hunting expedition in 1909, Delia Akeley, a forty-year- ...Show more
John Büsst: Bohemian artist and saviour of reef and rainforest by Iain McCalman
Category: Australiana
A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Büsst. A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Büsst.Award-winning historian Iain McCalman reveals the little-known story of influential Australian conservationist, John Büsst. Known to his enemies as ‘The Bingal ...Show more
Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro : The greatest enchanter of the eighteenth centruy by Iain McCalman
Category: Biography
Guiseppe Balsamo, the Count of Cagliostro, was an 18th-century Sicilian who became a magician, a mystic, a healer, a Freemason, swindler and, last but not least, a pornographer. He was famous throughout Europe, and so popular in France that his imprisonment for allegedly stealing a diamond necklace from ...Show more
The Reef - A Passionate History by Iain McCalman
Category: REM Natural History
The Great Barrier Reef, argues Iain McCalman, has been created by human minds as well as coral polyps, by imaginations as well as natural processes. In this landmark book he charts our shifting perceptions of it, from the terrifying labyrinth that almost sunk Cook's Endeavour to a fragile global treasu ...Show more
The Reef: A Passionate History by Iain McCalman
Category: Australian History
The Great Barrier Reef, argues Iain McCalman, has been created by human minds as well as coral polyps, by imaginations as well as natural processes. In this landmark book he charts our shifting perceptions of it, from the terrifying labyrinth that almost sunk Cook's Endeavour to a fragile global treasu ...Show more
The Reef : A Passionate History by Iain McCalman
Category: Australian History
"The Great Barrier Reef, argues Iain McCalman, has been created by human minds as well as coral polyps, by imaginations as well as natural processes. In this landmark book he charts our shifting perceptions of it, from the terrifying labyrinth that almost sunk Cook's Endeavour to a fragile global treasu ...Show more