リチャード・コニフ『新種発見に挑んだ冒険者たち地球生命の驚異に魅せられた博物学の時代』（原書） Species Seekers : Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth -- Hardback

リチャード・コニフ『新種発見に挑んだ冒険者たち地球生命の驚異に魅せられた博物学の時代』（原書）<br>Species Seekers : Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth -- Hardback

リチャード・コニフ『新種発見に挑んだ冒険者たち地球生命の驚異に魅せられた博物学の時代』（原書）
Species Seekers : Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth -- Hardback

Conniff, Richard

Ww Norton & Co（2010/11発売）

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製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 464 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780393068542
DDC分類 508.09033

基本説明

The story of bold adventurers who risked death to discover strange life forms in the farthest corners of planet Earth.

Full Description

Beginning with Linnaeus, a colorful band of explorers made it their mission to travel to the most perilous corners of the planet and bring back astonishing new life forms. They attracted followers ranging from Thomas Jefferson, who laid out mastodon bones on the White House floor, to twentieth-century doctors who used their knowledge of new species to conquer epidemic diseases. Acclaimed science writer Richard Conniff brings these daredevil "species seekers" to vivid life. Alongside their globe-spanning tales of adventure, he recounts some of the most dramatic shifts in the history of human thought. At the start, everyone accepted that the Earth had been created for our benefit. We weren't sure where vegetable ended and animal began, we couldn't classify species, and we didn't understand the causes of disease. But all that changed as the species seekers introduced us to the pantheon of life on Earth-and our place within it.