Sea Slugs, Wombats, Microbes
Richard Fortey: Species Seekers, 28 April 2011
The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth
by Richard Conniff.
Norton, 464 pp., £19.99, November 2010,978 0 393 06854 2 Show More
by Richard Conniff.
Norton, 464 pp., £19.99, November 2010,
“... race was always on to find something new and preferably spectacular, and to get the credit for it. Richard Conniff’s entertaining book commemorates this contest, particularly during the 18th and 19th centuries. The seekers sought out challenging, unexplored places likely to yield rich taxonomic rewards, notably Amazonia and the Dutch East Indies. Many ... ”
