Book ID: CBB222947161

Where Australia Collides with Asia: The epic voyages of Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and the Origin of On the Origin of Species (2017)

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Burnet, Ian (Author)


Rosenberg Pub.


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 384
Language: English

This book follows the epic voyages of the natural history Continent Australia, Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. The voyage of Continent Australia after it breaks away from Antarctica 50 million years ago with its raft of Gondwanaland flora and fauna and begins its journey north towards the equator. The voyage of Joseph Banks on the Endeavour who with Daniel Solander became the first trained naturalists to describe the unique flora and fauna of Continent Australia that had evolved during its 30 million years of isolation. The voyage of Charles Darwin on the Beagle, who after his observations in South America and the Galapagos Islands, sat on the banks of the Coxs River in New South Wales and tried to rationalize his belief in the idea of biblical creation and understand the origin of species. The voyage of Alfred Russel Wallace, who realized that the Lombok Strait in Indonesia represents the biogeographical boundary between the fauna of Asia and those of Australasia. On the Asian side are elephants, tigers, primates and specific birds. On the Australasian side are marsupials such as the possum-like cuscus and the Aru wallaby, as well as birds specific to Australia such as white cockatoos, brush turkeys and the spectacular Birds of Paradise. It was tectonic plate movement that brought these disparate worlds together and it was Alfred Russel Wallace's 'Letter from Ternate' that forced Charles Darwin to finally publish his landmark work 'On the Origin of Species'.

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Authors & Contributors
van Wyhe, John
Moore, D. T.
Matthew Fishburn
Musgrave, Toby
Vallance, Thomas
Steel, Emily
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Natural history
Evolution
Biographies
Botany
Scientific expeditions
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Early modern
Modern
Ancient
20th century, early
Places
Australia
Great Britain
South America
New South Wales (Australia)
Galapagos Islands
Amazon River Region (South America)
Institutions
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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