Essay review of Michael Shermer, In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace (2002); John G. Wilson, The Forgotten Naturalist: In Search of Alfred Russel Wallace (2000); Jane R. Camerini, The Alfred Russel Wallace Reader (2002); Peter Raby, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life (2001); David Quammen, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (1996); Andrew Berry, Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology (2002)