Bibliograph

Between man and beast, an unlikely explorer, the evolution debates, and the African adventure that took the Victorian world by storm, Monte Reel

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Between man and beast, an unlikely explorer, the evolution debates, and the African adventure that took the Victorian world by storm, Monte Reel

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-314) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Between man and beast

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

786273551

Responsibility statement

Monte Reel

Sub title

an unlikely explorer, the evolution debates, and the African adventure that took the Victorian world by storm

Table Of Contents

Destiny -- A new obsession -- Hanno's wake -- Drawing lines -- American dreams -- To slide into brutish immorality -- An awkward homecoming -- "Unfriends" -- Fever dreams -- Between men and apes -- Maps and legends -- A lion in London -- The man-eaters -- D.O.A -- Spirit of the damned -- Origins -- In the city of wonders -- Fighting words -- The boulevard of broken dreams -- The inner circle -- The unveiling -- The great white hunter -- Into the whirlwind -- Three motives -- The gorilla war -- The squire's gambit -- The gorilla in the pulpit -- Mrs. Grundy and the Cannibal Club -- "Evidence of a spurious origin" -- Shadows of the past -- Black and white -- The imposters -- Shortcuts to glory -- The wager -- The re-invention -- Damaged goods -- The boldest venture -- The armies of the plague -- Running for their lives -- The jury of his peers -- Accidental victories -- The explorer -- No-man's land

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