The Book of Naturalists: An Anthology of the Best Natural History

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This book falls rather naturally into two parts. The first deals with the very beginnings of natural history, its roots, its foundations as discerned in the early groupings of those primitive men who had distanced their ape-like predecessors, stood firmly erect, looked around, and been able to say, or at least think: 'I am I'. Part Two begins with Darwin, the second landmark of greatness and extends from the date of the Origin of Species to the present day.

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"This is an anthology with a fine sense of history... there is a timelessness to many of its selections."--Washington Post Book World