An edition of Between man and beast (2013)
Between Man and Beast
An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm
By Monte Reel
Publish Date
2013
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
eng
Pages
360
Description:
Documents the story of mid-19th-century explorer Paul Du Chaillu, who after three years in the equatorial wilderness of West Africa emerged with definitive proof of the existence of the mythical gorilla, only to be swept up by the heated debate about Darwin's theory of evolution.
subjects: Gorilla, Hunters, Explorers, Description and travel, Discoveries in science, Discoveries in geography, Entdeckungsreise, Jagd, Discovery and exploration, Travel, Cryptozoology, Evolution (Biology), History, Gabon, Africa, description and travel, Gorilla's, New York Times reviewed
People: Paul B. Du Chaillu (1835-1903)
Places: Gabon