BETWEEN MAN AND BEAST: an unlikely explorer, the evolution debates, and the African adventure that took the Victorian world by Storm, Signed Copy

New York: Doubleday, 2013. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. cloth, d.j. xiv, 331 pages : illustrations, 10 pp bibliography, index, signed by author, An extraordinary adventure tale of a young man who emerged from the jungles of africa with evidence of a mysterious ,still-mythical beast-the gorillea-only to stumble into the center of the biggest debate of the day:Darwin's theory of evolution. CONTENTS: Part one -- Destiny -- A new obsession -- Hanno's wake -- Drawing lines -- American dreams -- To slide into brutish immorality -- An awkward homecoming -- "Unfriends" -- Fever dreams -- Between men and apes -- Maps and legends -- A lion in London -- The man-eaters -- D.O.A -- Spirit of the damned -- Origins -- In the city of wonders -- Fighting words -- The boulevard of broken dreams -- Part two -- The inner circle -- The unveiling -- The great white hunter -- Into the whirlwind -- Three motives -- The gorilla war -- The squire's gambit -- The gorilla in the pulpit -- Mrs. Grundy & the cannibal club -- "Evidence of a spurious origin" -- Shadows of the past -- Black & white -- The imposters -- Shortcuts to glory -- The wager -- Part three -- The re-invention -- Damaged goods -- The boldest venture -- The armies of the plague -- Running for their lives -- The jury of his peers -- Accidental victories -- The explorer -- No man's land. Size: 8 vo,..