Charles Darwin: a biography
The centerpiece of this vivid portrait of Darwin is an account of his five-year expedition on the Beagle (1831-36), which transformed a seasick, Cambridge-educated science apprentice into a keen observer of nature and amateur geologist. Drawing on a wealth of new material from family archives, Brown masterfully recreates the personal, cultural and intellectual matrix out of which Darwin's evolutionary theory took shape. The second volulme picks up the story a year before the publication of On t…
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- Full title :Charles Darwin : a biography / Janet Browne.
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The centerpiece of this vivid portrait of Darwin is an account of his five-year expedition on the Beagle (1831-36), which transformed a seasick, Cambridge-educated science apprentice into a keen observer of nature and amateur geologist. Drawing on a wealth of new material from family archives, Brown masterfully recreates the personal, cultural and intellectual matrix out of which Darwin's evolutionary theory took shape. The second volulme picks up the story a year before the publication of On the Origin of Species, with the arrival of a package from Alfred Russel Wallace, whose own ideas on natural selection virtually mirrored Darwin's, forcing him to go public; as Browne shows, he proved himself a master tactician of institutional and media spin. Browne's subject is monumental, but her writing style is never overburdened by the weight. Rather, her prose is elegant in its clarity of thought, her craftsmanship impeccable in the way it weaves a coherent whole from the innumerable threads of thought, experience and persona that comprised this colossal life.
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- Publication Date:©1995-2002.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1995-2002.
Notes
Originally published: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1995.
The Physical Object
- Description:2 volumes : : illustrations, portraits
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780691026060, 0691026068, 9780679429326, 0679429328
- oclc:ocm84717441
- LC Classification:QH31.D2
- Dewey Decimal:575/.0092
Table of Contents
V. 1. Voyaging -- v. 2. The power of place.
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