Origins of a heretic -- The struggle for existence -- A daring plan -- Travels on the Amazon... -- ...And the Rio Negro -- Disaster at sea ... and a civilized interlude -- The Malay Archipelago -- The mechanism revealed -- Beautiful dreamer -- A turn toward the unknowable -- The olympian heights and the beginnings of the fall -- Wallace and the descent of man -- The descent of Wallace -- The war on spiritualism -- Phoenix from the ashes -- To the land of epidemic delusions -- The new nemesis -- Thoroughly unpopular causes -- Satisfaction, retrospection, and work -- A national treasure celebrated.
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