<p>The British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace set out for the Amazon in 1848 to collect natural history specimens. During his time there, he spent almost two years travelling up the Rio Negro, a region few Europeans had explored. A fire on the return journey to England destroyed all of his collections but among the possessions rescued was a collection of sketches of fish, later presented to The Natural History Museum. This book is an account of Wallace's expedition describing the naturalist in the making, the tragic loss of his collections and how this affected his future. Throughout the book the role of chance in the making of naturalists and the course of science in general is explored. The work is illustrated with the fish sketches, palm drawings and scenes of life in the Amazon.</p>

Footsteps in the Forest: Alfred Wallace in the Amazon

History

Sandra Knapp

Americas

The Natural History Museum

In the Name of Plants

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

The young British photographer Nick Knight discovered the beauty of dried plants on a stroll through the herbarium, the "library of pressed flowers," at the Natural History Museum in London. These flowers were a source of such fascination to the photographer that in 1997 he devoted his second large photo album to them. The charm of their fragile corporeality, their filigree transparency, and their subtle colors delighted Nick Knight for more than three and a half years--the time it took him to select from over six million plants in the herbarium. Sandra Knapp, curator of Central American plants at the Natural History Museum has written short explanatory texts on the individual plants commenting on their biological characteristics as well as on their historical and cultural importance. A classic of plant photography, Nick Knight: Flora is now available again in an unchanged edition.

Nick Knight: Flora

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Art Data

Nick Knight Flora (Paperback) /anglais (CINEMA - MUSIQU)

Flora

Allen& Unwin

Individual Artists

Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh

Flora mesoamericana, Vol. 1. Psilotaceae a Slavinaceae (Spanish Edition)

Gerrit Davidese

Mario Sousa

Universidad Nacional Autónoma De México)

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