This beautifully written history traces the fortunes of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries in Chile. It explains how they showed Chileans a new way to see their own natural environment, teaching a younger generation of scientists there and forging international networks that helped to shape the modern world.

Autorentext

Patience A. Schell Chair of Hispanic Studies at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. She is the author of Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City (2003), and co-editor of The Women's Revolution in Mexico: 1910-1953 (2007) and New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico (2012).

Inhalt
Introduction. Friendship, Science and Chilean Nature 1. The Making of a Naturalist 2. Chile and the Scientific Imagination 3. Making Friends in Chile 4. Darwin, Gay and the Utility of Chile 5. The Prussian Connection 6. A New Naturalist in Town 7. Expanding the Web 8. At the End of Their Days Epilogue: Reflections on the Life of a Fly Catcher