Through Eugène Dubois' eyes : stills of a turbulent life / by Paul C.H. Albers, John de Vos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albers, Paulinus Cornelis Hendricus, 1965-

Contributor:

Vos, John de.

Series:

Brill eBook titles

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Physical anthropologists--Netherlands--Biography.

Physical anthropologists.

Dubois, Eugène, 1858-1940.

Dubois, Eugène.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Eugène Dubois, the man who found the “missing link” between apes and humans, intended to write a book about his finds in Indonesia. He never finished it. In this current volume the outlines of Dubois’ book are reconstructed. Recently discovered correspondence with his intended publisher shed new light on the troublesome character of Dubois and his inability to communicate with the scientific establishment. This volume also discloses the vast amount of photographic material that is part of the Dubois Collection at Naturalis, the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, the Netherlands. As Pat Shipman summarizes it in her preface: “[...] what this book offers, it is more: more images, more letters, more details, more insight into the workings of a brilliant but unquestionably difficult man of science. We shall not see Dubois' like again so it is doubly fortunate that Albers and de Vos have uncovered so much about his life.”

Contents:

Preliminary Material / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos

Introduction / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos

Personal Stuff / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos

The Book Part I: The Indonesian Collection / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos

Distractions / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos

The Book Part II: The Peltenburg Era / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos

Epilogue / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos

Appendix I. The Brill Correspondence / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos

Appendix II. Glass Negatives And Positives / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos

Appendix III. Selection Of Photographs / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos

Acknowledgements / P.C. Albers and J. De Vos.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613039071

9781283039079

1283039079

9789004193291

9004193294

OCLC:

707926502

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004183001.i-186 DOI