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From an Easy Chair
E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir Lankester
Is the sea serpent real, and how did the okapi hide so long from science? Ray Lankester takes up such questions from his easy chair, in essays on giraffes, geologists, and the sheer pleasure of knowing the natural world. Learned yet genial, he makes big science feel like good conversation. Pull up a chair and share a naturalist's wide-ranging curiosity.
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45 chapters
- 1FROM AN EASY CHAIR
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 41. Science and the Study of Nature
- 52. The Desire to Know the World of Nature
- 63. Scares and Wonders
- 74. Work at the Pasteur Institute
- 85. The Sea Serpent
- 96. Giraffes and the Okapi
- 107. The Great Geologists of Last Century
- 118. Experiments with Precious Stones
- 129. Diamonds
- 1310. Science and Fisheries
- 1411. Discoveries as to Malaria
- 1512. Malta Fever
- 1613. A Cure for Sleeping Sickness
- 1714. Tsetse-Flies and Disease
- 1815. Monkeys and Fleas
+ 27 more. The full contents open with the book.
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