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2010024532 |
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DLC |
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20190729104407.0 |
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2010024532 |
| 015 ## - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER |
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GBB085992 |
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bnb |
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015605550 |
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Uk |
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9780393068542 |
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0393068544 |
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(OCoLC)ocn601099820 |
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DLC |
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DLC |
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pcc |
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EY8Z |
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| Classification number |
QH26 |
| Item number |
.C66 2011 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
508.09/033 |
| Edition number |
22 |
| 084 ## - OTHER CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
42.01 |
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bcl |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Conniff, Richard, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1951- |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The species seekers : |
| Remainder of title |
heroes, fools, and the mad pursuit of life on Earth / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Richard Conniff. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
W.W. Norton, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
x, 464 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-434) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Strange things, strange lands -- That great beast of a town -- Finding the thread -- Collecting and conquest -- Mad about shells -- Extinct -- The rising -- The river rolling westward -- "If they lost their skalps" -- The burden of specimens -- Arsenic and immortality -- "Am I not a man and a brother?" -- Craniological longings -- "A fool to nature" -- The world turned upside down -- A primate named Savage -- "Species men" - "Labourer in the field" -- The slow power of natural forces -- The gorilla war -- Big noses and short tea-drinkers -- Industrial-scale natural history -- "The blessing of a good skirt" -- The beast in the mosquito -- "Why not try the experiment?" -- The new age of discovery -- Necrology. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"The Species Seekers takes us back in time--before the words "scientist" or "biologist" even existed--to an era when a popular fever for the natural world swept through humanity. Discovering new species wasn't a rarefied pastime; it was a pandemic, a social disease that struck every corner of society, claiming such notables as Thomas Jefferson, who laid out mastodon bones on the floor of the White House, and Mark Twain, who wanted to explore the Amazon but went bust in New Orleans and had to make do with the river at hand. Amid its tales of adventure and intrigue, The Species Seekers offers unmatched insight into one of the great revolutions in the history of human thought. At the start, God was in heaven, man was the center of the universe, and everyone accepted that the Earth had been born yesterday for our benefit. But we weren't sure where vegetable ended and animal began. We didn't know what species were, or that they could be joined by common origin. We had no method of identifying the causes of the pestilential diseases that made death a constant companion. All that suddenly changed as the species seekers introduced us to the pantheon of life on Earth--and our place within it."--Dust Jacket. |
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| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Naturalists |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Natural history |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
18th century. |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Life (Biology) |
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Research |
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History |
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18th century. |
| 948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN) |
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