An award-wining biologist takes us on the dramatic expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet.
Just 150 years ago,most of our world was an unexplored wilderness.Our sense of how old it was? Vague and vastly off the mark. And our sense of our own species' history? A set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. Fossils had been known for millennia, but they were seen as the bones of dragons and other imagined creatures.
In the tradition of The Microbe Hunters and Gods, Graves, and Scholars, Sean Carroll's Remarkable Creatures celebrates the pioneers who replaced our fancies with the even more amazing true story of how our world evolved.
Carroll recounts the most important discoveries in two centuries of national history from Darwin's trip around the world to CharlesWalcott's discovery of pre-Cambrian life in the Grand Canyon; from Louis and Mary Leakey's investigation of our deepest past in East Africa to the trailblazers in modern laboratories who have located a time clock in our DNA. Join him in a rousing voyage of discovery, from the epic journeys of pioneering naturalists to the breakthroughs making headlines today.
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Jane E. Mangan's Trading Roles explores aspects of life in POTOSÍ that I have not been able to get into here, focusing more on its trade interactions than on the experience of native miners. For more on Potosí, see Bartolome Arzáns de ...
Journal of a Visit to the Georgia Islands is a record of that trip, and although unsigned, internal evidence points directly to prominent Georgia entrepreneur Jonathan Bryan (1708-1788) as the author.
一八五四年三月,英國博物學家華萊士離開英國前往馬來群島,目的是發掘並採集各種西方世界原來不曾知悉的動植物種,以做為私藏並供應複本給博物館與業餘收藏者。接下來,他 ...
Renaissance diplomat and part-time spy, William Hakluyt was also England's first serious geographer, gathering together a wealth of accounts about the wide-ranging travels and discoveries of the sixteenth-century English.
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J. Pentland. Davidson, D. M. 1966. “Negro Slave Control and Resistance in Colonial Mexico, 1519–1650.” HAHR46:235–53. Davis, D. B. 2006. Inhuman Bondage. The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
NATIONAL BEST SELLER - A riveting account of Shackleton's famed Antarctic expedition, recounting one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration--perhaps the greatest of them all--the...