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Index
Cover
ALSO BY RICHARD CONNIFF
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
Introduction Strange Things, Strange Lands
Chapter One That Great Beast of a Town
Chapter Two Finding the Thread
Chapter Three Collecting and Conquest
Chapter Four Mad about Shells
Chapter Five Extinct
Chapter Six The Rising
Chapter Seven The River Rolling Westward
Chapter Eight “If They Lost Their Skalps”
Chapter Nine The Burden of Specimens
Chapter Ten Arsenic and Immortality
Chapter Eleven “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”
Chapter Twelve Craniological Longings
Chapter Thirteen “A Fool to Nature”
Chapter Fourteen The World Turned Upside Down
Chapter Fifteen A Primate Named Savage
Chapter Sixteen “Species Men”
Chapter Seventeen “Labourer in the Field”
Chapter Eighteen The Slow Power of Natural Forces
Chapter Nineteen The Gorilla War
Chapter Twenty Big Noses and Short Tea-Drinkers
Chapter Twenty-One Industrial-Scale Natural History
Chapter Twenty-Two “The Blessing of a Good Skirt”
Chapter Twenty-Three The Beast in the Mosquito
Chapter Twenty-Four “Why Not Try the Experiment?”
Epilogue The New Age of Discovery
Necrology
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
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