Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm, (Paperback)

from cyclops1771

An unknown story (to me) of a Victorian African explorer (Paul Du Chaillu) who seems to have been missed after Livingston, Stanley, Speke, Burton, et al. It fuses the Victorian ideal of the civilized explorer with the resulting changes in thoughtt/philosophy fro the additional scientific knowledg...

from Stbalbach

Excellent book. The explorer Paul Du Chaillu usually isn't given much attention today but for a time he was the ultimate great white explorer and hunter. There were other African explorers besides Stanley, Livingston and Burton. Reel doesn't merely recount Du Chaillu's memoirs, but shows how his ...

from IamIndeed

In the height of scientific expansion, exploration and experimentation of Victorian England, the establishment, Church and Society often clashed as theories were debated, proposed, proven and dismissed. A fascinating study of the politics and societal tolerance (or lack thereof) of the day is pro...

from MarkBeronte

In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, Du Chaillu emerged with 20 preserved gorilla skins-two of which were stuffed and brought on tour-and walked smack dab ...

from muddyboy

Many people have heard of the African explorations of Stanley and Livingstone but very few even know the name of Paul Du Chaillu who actually probably accomplished more in terms of natural history and scientific knowledge by being the first to document Gorillas and Pygmies. To do this he had to o...