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Darwin's Armada by Iain Mccalman
$26.95 AUD
Category: Australian
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
$28.00 AUD
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
Delia Akeley and the Monkey: A Human-Animal Story of Captivity, Patriarchy and Nature by Iain McCalman
$28.00 AUD
Category: General
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
$37.00 AUD
Category: Australian
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
The Reef : A Passionate History by Iain McCalman
$28.00 AUD
Category: Australian
"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
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