obp.0393.pdf
In the 1830s, decades before Darwin published the Origin of Species, a museum of evolution flourished in London. Reign of the Beast pieces together the extraordinary story of this lost working-man's institution and its enigmatic owner, the wine merchant W. D. Saull. A financial backer of the an...
Language: | English |
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Open Book Publishers
2024
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Online Access: | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0393 |