Who wrote the 1924 adventure novel ‘Beau Geste’?
Beau Geste Beau Geste Beau Geste is an adventure novel by P. C. Wren, which details the adventures of three English brothers who enlist separately in the French Foreign Legion following the theft of a valuable jewel from the country house of a relative. While written in 1924 the novel is set in the period before World War I. It has been adapted for the screen several times. Michael "Beau" Geste is the protagonist (and an archetype). The main narrator is his younger brother John. The three Geste brothers are portrayed as behaving according to the English upper class values of a
Beau Geste hypothesis Beau Geste hypothesis The Beau Geste hypothesis in animal behaviour is the hypothesis which tries to explain why some avian species have such elaborate song repertoires, for the purpose of territorial defence. The hypothesis' name comes from the 1924 book "Beau Geste", and was first coined by John Krebs in 1977. The Beau Geste hypothesis which was coined by Krebs in 1977 to explain why various avian species have such large song repertories. The hypothesis discusses that avian species utilize such large song repertories for potentially a number of reasons such as for territorial defence and to test the competition