San Antonio College Library

"An epic, extraordinary account of rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth -- a competition whose consequences still reverberate today -- from the bestselling author of A Sense of the World. In the eighteenth century, two men -- exact contemporaries and polar opposites -- dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair,...