Unmapped Countries

An enlightening, multi-disciplinary investigation into the biological sciences during the nineteenth century when fundamental discoveries in geology and physics dramatically destabilized the Victorian worldview.   

An enlightening, multi-disciplinary investigation into the fascinating and courageous scientific explorations of the nineteenth century.

This important new book, including contributions from some of the most distinguished experts in the field, demonstrates that the relation between literature, culture and biology in the nineteenth century is far more complex than habitual references to Darwin would have us believe.