Darwin's Rival: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Search for Evolution
By Christiane Dorion
Illustrated by Harry Tennant
By Christiane Dorion
Illustrated by Harry Tennant
Category: Children's Nonfiction | Children's Middle Grade Books
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$24.99
Mar 17, 2020 | ISBN 9781536209327 | Middle Grade (10 and up)
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Praise
Tennant gives the slightly oversized volume the feel of a collector’s album with ranks of accurately drawn tropical beetles, birds, and other specimens. These he intersperses with portraits of eminent colleagues, images of collecting gear, and verdant scenes of the white explorer at work either alone or with one or more Indigenous assistants (the latter only sometimes identified, or even mentioned, in the narrative). A case study of science at its idealistic and paradigm-changing best.
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Many well-chosen quotes bring Wallace’s lively voice into the narrative. Reminiscent of detailed linocut prints using several coordinated colors, the handsome digital illustrations are equally effective in creating maps, portraits, displays of collected insects, and panoramic scenes of Wallace crossing oceans, deserts, and rain forests. An absorbing introduction to a notable figure in science history.
—Booklist (starred review)
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