Peter F. Stevens Books
The Development of Biological Systematics
A reevaluation of the history of biological systematics that discusses the formative years of the so-called natural system of classification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows how cl...
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The Mayflower Murderer and Other Forgotten Firsts in American History
In the woods near Plymouth, a matchlock musket roared. A hunter's quarry crumpled to the forest floor. But the prey was not some wild turkey or other woodland animal. John Newcomen was on the groun...
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The Voyage of the Catalpa
"Setting out from New Bedford, Massachusetts, on April 29, 1875, the American whaling barque, Catalpa, undertook a secret year-long mission of international rescue. American sea captain George Anth...
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