Episode 5: The Sleeper Hoax Booklet

Books in the Wild by Keri Schroeder

May 28, 201700:17:09Arts

For his 90th birthday in February 1913, renowned British naturalist and evolutionary biologist Alfred Russel Wallace received a mysterious package containing a small booklet called Shall We Have Common Sense. This bookle...

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