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Between Man and Beast

An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel

By Science News

Victorian explorer Paul Du Chaillu heads into African forests in 1856 to find a mysterious creature then just a rumor in the Western world: the gorilla.

Doubleday, 2013, 331 p., $26.95

A version of this article appears in the May 18, 2013 issue of Science News.

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