Bright Paradise:
Victorian Scientific Travellers
Peter Raby

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Preface and Acknowledgements
	Introduction: To the World's Beginning	1
Ch. 1	The Scientists of the Survey	17
Ch. 2	The Heart of Africa	42
Ch. 3	The Naturalists in the Amazons	75
Ch. 4	From the Amazon to the Andes	98
Ch. 5	The Plant-hunters	124
Ch. 6	Wallace and the King Bird of Paradise	148
Ch. 7	The Savage Ape	178
Ch. 8	Natural Perspectives	196
Ch. 9	A New Mythology	215
Ch. 10	Through the Looking-Glass	248
	Bibliographical Notes	258
	Index	265

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