THE BIRDS OF PARADISE

About the Book

A biography of one of the world's great naturalists, with details of his explorations on the Amazon and in the Malay Archipelago. Wallace's hidden sexual life, the world of Victorian science and gay sexuality, and the struggles of a great thinker to survive in a hostile social environment are described in lavish detail.

About the Author

William Bryant was born in California and worked in the Middle East since before the Gulf War. He has written a short biography of Wallace and an erotic novel, Ross: T. E. Lawrence Discovers America. The Birds of Paradise was researched at the British Library while Bryant was working on his biography of Roger Casement for Foxrock Books.