Charles Darwin: Voyaging
Volume 1 of a biography
$56.75
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2003
Summary
An astonishingly fresh picture of the great naturalist - Janet Browne’s book is a triumph, the closest we can come to getting inside Darwin’s mind Sunday Telegraph
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 acc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844133147 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844133141 |
| Author: | Janet Browne |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Pimlico |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2003 |
| Weight: | 800g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 154mm x 54mm |
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Critics Review
Brilliantly penetrating…utterly riveting
Brilliantly penetrating…utterly riveting * Daily Telegraph *
Browne knows how to spellbind the reader… The definitive Darwin biography – Ernst Mayr * New York Newsday *
An authoritative and highly readable biography which uncovers the complex process of scientific discovery * Independent *
It is wonderful and marvellous, even magisterial – Stephen Jay Gould * New York Review of Books *
Splendid. Her qualifications as a trained biologist, historian of science and skilled editor of the correspondence out her in an ideal position… A wonderful read * Nature *
About The Author
Janet Browne
Janet Browne is a zoologist and historian of science. She was formerly a Professor in the History of Biology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College, London. She is currently the Aramont Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University.
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