naturalists

Examines the lives and careers of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, both born on February 12, 1809, and discusses the influence their accomplishments had on humanity and history.

Explores the life of Victorian scientist and spiritualist, Alfred Russel Wallace, who co-discovered the theory of natural selection with Charles Darwin and examines his interests in spiritualism, phrenology, mesmerism, environmentalism, and life on Mars.

Chronicles the life of twentieth-century explorer Roy Chapman Andrews and examines the Central Asiatic Expeditions of 1922-30, which brought to light dinosaur eggs, the first Velociraptor skeleton ever found, and many other important fossils; also discusses the controversies over imperialism and evolution that surrounded the expeditions.

Presents the journal of naturalist John Muir in which he records his thoughts and experiences in the Sierra Mountains where he went for the first time in 1869 while working as an overseer hired on to help move a band of sheep to summer pasture.

Excerpts from his personal diaries help chronicle Robert Cushman Murphy's experiences aboard one of the last Yankee whaleships out of New Bedford, on a voyage to the Antarctic in 1912.

Brenda Peterson describes the bond she has formed with animals throughout her life.

Biography of Charles Darwin and how he was drawn into the research that resulted in the publication of his theory of evolution, an event that inspired a controversy that lives on today.

Describes Darwin's work as a naturalist, and presents an intimate portrait of him as a son, brother, father, and husband.

Biography of naturalist John Muir, whose love for the wilderness and battles on behalf of the environment, inspired him to found the Sierra Club.

Tells the life story of naturalist and museum patron Annie Montague Alexander, describing her childhood in Hawaii, her initiation to field collecting at a relatively late age, and the forty years she spent amassing specimens for the two museums she founded at the University of California at Berkeley.