Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wallace’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the major texts
* All 21 books, with individual contents tables
* Features rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Famous works are fully illustrated with their original illustrations
* A wide-ranging selection of essays and articles written by Wallace throughout his entire career — hundreds of rare essays
* Easily locate the essays you want to read
* Includes Wallace’s celebrated autobiography ‘My Life’
* Marchant’s seminal collection of Wallace’s letters – spend hours exploring the author’s personal correspondence
* Features three biographies – discover Wallace’s incredible life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Books
Palm Trees of the Amazon and Their Uses (1853)
A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro (1853)
The Malay Archipelago (1869)
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection (1870)
On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism (1875)
The Geographical Distribution of Animals (1876)
Tropical Nature and Other Essays (1878)
Australasia (1879)
Island Life (1880)
Land Nationalisation (1882)
Bad Times (1885)
Darwinism (1889)
The Wonderful Century (1898)
Studies Scientific and Social (1900)
Man’s Place in the Universe (1903)
Is Mars Habitable (1907)
Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes (1908)
The World of Life (1910)
Social Environment and Moral Progress (1913)
The Revolt of Democracy (1913)
The Essays
Selected Essays, Articles and Remarks
The Autobiography
My Life (1905)
The Letters
Letters and Reminiscences (1916) by James Marchant
The Biographies
Alfred Russel Wallace (1911)
Alfred Russel Wallace (1913) by Henry Fairfield Osborn
Alfred Russel Wallace (1927) by Julian Sorell Huxley
