Between man and beast : an unlikely explorer, the evolution debates, and the African adventure that took the Victorian world by storm /

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Author / Creator:Reel, Monte.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Doubleday, c2013.
Description:xiv, 331 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9048101
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ISBN:9780385534222
0385534221
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: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.