Naturalist
- Title
- Naturalist / Edward O. Wilson.
- Published by
- Washington, D.C. : Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2006.
- Supplementary content
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xii, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- Recalling his life from a childhood exploring the Gulf Coast of Alabama to a career as a Harvard professor, Pulitzer Prize-winner Wilson details how a boyhood enchantment with nature became a lifelong calling. He provides insight into the origin and development of the ideas that have shaped his biological research and defines the central principles of evolutionary biology.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Contents
- Daybreak in Alabama. Paradise Beach ; Send us the boy ; A light in the corner ; A magic kingdom ; To do my duty ; Alabama dreaming ; The hunters ; Good-bye to the South ; Orizaba -- Storyteller. The South Pacific ; The forms of things unknown ; The molecular wars ; Islands are the key ; The Florida Keys experiment ; Ants ; Attaining sociobiology ; The sociobiology controversy ; Biodiversity, biophilia.
- Call number
- JFE 19-7321
- Note
- Contains the text of the original 1994 ed. published by Island Press plus an afterword by the author.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Author
- Wilson, Edward O., author.
- Title
- Naturalist / Edward O. Wilson.
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2006.
- Edition
- First Island Press paperback edition.
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- LCCN
- 2006287573
- ISBN
- 1597260886 (pbk.)
- 9781597260886 (pbk.)
- 1559632887
- 9781559632881
- 9781642830217 (paperback ; 25th anniversary edition)
- 1642830216 (paperback ; 25th anniversary edition)
- Research call number
- JFE 19-7321