Naturalist

Title
  1. Naturalist / Edward O. Wilson.
Published by
  1. Washington, D.C. : Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2006.
Supplementary content
  1. Publisher description
Author
  1. Wilson, Edward O.

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Description
  1. xii, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Naturalists
  2. Naturalists > United States > Biography
  3. Wilson, Edward O
  4. United States
  5. Biography
Genre/Form
  1. Biography.
Contents
  1. 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
  1. JFE 19-7321
Note
  1. Contains the text of the original 1994 ed. published by Island Press plus an afterword by the author.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Wilson, Edward O., author.
Title
  1. Naturalist / Edward O. Wilson.
Publisher
  1. Washington, D.C. : Island Press/Shearwater Books, 2006.
Edition
  1. First Island Press paperback edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  1. Publisher description
LCCN
  1. 2006287573
ISBN
  1. 1597260886 (pbk.)
  2. 9781597260886 (pbk.)
  3. 1559632887
  4. 9781559632881
  5. 9781642830217 (paperback ; 25th anniversary edition)
  6. 1642830216 (paperback ; 25th anniversary edition)
Research call number
  1. JFE 19-7321
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