Missing Links: The African and American Worlds of R. L. Garner, Primate Collector

by Jeremy Rich

Book Overview

Jeremy Rich uses the eccentric life of R. L. Garner (1848-1920) to examine the commercial networks that brought the first apes to America during the Progressive Era, a critical time in the development of ideas about African wildlife, race, and evolution.

Garner was a self-taught zoologist and atheist from southwest Virginia. Starting in 1892, he lived on and off in the French colony of Gabon, studying primates and trying to engage U.S. academics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082034060X
• ISBN13: 9780820340609
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"