An Ugly Baby
Andrew Berry: Alfred Russel Wallace, 18 May 2000
Footsteps in the Forest: Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon
by Sandra Knapp.
Natural History Museum, 96 pp., £16.95, November 1999,0 565 09143 3 Show More
by Sandra Knapp.
Natural History Museum, 96 pp., £16.95, November 1999,
“... intent on improving their ‘cabinets’. Wallace’s four years in the Amazon are chronicled by Sandra Knapp in Footsteps in the Forest, with excerpts from Wallace’s own account set alongside commentary based largely on her experiences as a field botanist in South America. Here we see him developing his distinctive professional characteristics. The ... ”
