{"product_id":"an-inordinate-fondness-for-beetles-paul-spencer-sochaczewski-9782940573264","title":"An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Campfire Conversations with Alfred Russel Wallace on People and Nature Based on Common Travel in the Malay Archipe","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn Inordinate Fondness for Beetles follows the Victorian-era explorations of Alfred Russel Wallace through Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. While Wallace is recognized as co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection (and was perhaps deliberately sidelined by Darwin), he was also an edgy social commentator and a voracious collector of \"natural productions\"--he caught, skinned, and pickled 125,660 specimens, including 212 new species of birds and 900 new species of beetles. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSochaczewski has created an innovative form of storytelling, combining incisive biography and personal travelogue. He examines themes about which Wallace cared deeply--women's power, why boys leave home, the need to collect, our relationship with other species, humanity's need to control nature and how this leads to nature destruction, arrogance, the role of ego and greed, white-brown and brown-brown colonialism, serendipity, passion, mysticism--and interprets them through his own filter with layers of humor, history, social commentary, and sometimes outrageous personal tales.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Spencer Sochaczewski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 2940573263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9782940573264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Explorer's Eye Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.09d","brand":"Paul Spencer Sochaczewski","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058666139903,"sku":"9782940573264","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fc1ad579-f71b-40ee-bd11-94a06a7b70c4.jpg?v=1685053869","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-inordinate-fondness-for-beetles-paul-spencer-sochaczewski-9782940573264","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}