Cover of Between Man and Beast

Book 2013

Between Man and Beast

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Published
2013
  • Gorilla
  • Hunters
  • Explorers
  • Description and travel
  • Discoveries in science
  • Discoveries in geography
  • Entdeckungsreise
  • Jagd

Documents the story of mid-19th-century explorer Paul Du Chaillu, who after three years in the equatorial wilderness of West Africa emerged with definitive proof of the existence of the mythical gorilla, only to be swept up by the heated debate about Darwin's theory of evolution.