A review by saras
Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel

4.0

Amazing how someone can be so famous at one time and completely forgotten thereafter. I am interested in the history of science aspect and would have liked to hear more about how attitudes and understanding of the gorilla developed, but the story was a biography and when Paul moved on to other interests, so did the book. Quite a fascinating life and I appreciated how the writer withheld some details to be revealed and pondered later in the book.