Charles Darwin: A Biography Vol 1 Voyaging
โ Scribed by Browne, Janet
- Book ID
- 109587434
- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Few lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries and controversies more than 100 years after his death. Yet, only with the publication of Voyaging , the first volume of this acclaimed biography, do we have a truly vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin as a man and a scientist.
The second and final volume of Janet Browne's biography of Darwin - The Power of Place - is also available from Pimlico.
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In 1858 Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside, respected by fellow biologists and well liked among his wide and distinguished circle of acquaintances. He was not yet a focus of debate; his ''big book on species'' still lay