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Charles Darwin: Voyaging

by Janet Browne

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Awards

2002 New York Times Notable Book
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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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 a hundred years after his death. Yet only now, with the publication of Voyaging, the first of two volumes that will constitute the definitive biography, do we have a truly vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin as man and as scientist. Drawing upon much new material, supported by an unmatched acquaintance with both the intellectual setting and the voluminous sources, Janet Browne has at last been able to unravel the central enigma of Darwin's career: how did this amiable young gentleman, born into a prosperous provincial English family, grow into a thinker capable of challenging the most basic principles of religion and science? The dramatic story of Voyaging takes us from agonizing personal challenges to the exhilaration of discovery; we see a young, inquisitive Darwin gradually mature, shaping, refining, and finally setting forth the ideas that would at last fall upon the world like a thunderclap in The Origin of Species.

Synopsis:

"I realized that I had never fully understood Fitzroy or Lyell or Dr. Darwin or Emma ... especially Darwin himself. Janet Browne not only makes these historical figures real, three dimensional people, but she shows so elegantly how they affected and interacted with one another. This is not just another biography of Darwin, but a unique and important contribution; it will outlast all others. The scholarship is ... impeccable."--John Tyler Bonner, Princeton University

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Some people called him an evil genius. Others just said he was a genius. Still, they unanimously saluted his brainpower. No other thinker shook Victorian England as deeply as Charles Darwin with his theory of evolution by natural selection.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780691026060
Subtitle:
Voyaging
Author:
Browne, Janet
Author:
Browne, E. Janet
Author:
Darwin, Charles
Author:
Browne, E. J.
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Location:
Princeton, N.J. :
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Scientists
Subject:
Naturalists
Subject:
Darwin, charles, 1809-1882
Subject:
Darwin, Charles
Subject:
Naturalists -- England -- Biography.
Subject:
Life Sciences - Evolution
Subject:
Scientists - General
Subject:
Science & Technology
Subject:
American history
Subject:
Biological Sciences.
Subject:
History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science
Subject:
Biography-Scientists
Copyright:
1996
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series Volume:
106-26
Publication Date:
April 1996
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
75 halftones. 4 maps., <, br, >, 4 maps
Pages:
632
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in 33 oz
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"Synopsis" by , "I realized that I had never fully understood Fitzroy or Lyell or Dr. Darwin or Emma ... especially Darwin himself. Janet Browne not only makes these historical figures real, three dimensional people, but she shows so elegantly how they affected and interacted with one another. This is not just another biography of Darwin, but a unique and important contribution; it will outlast all others. The scholarship is ... impeccable."--John Tyler Bonner, Princeton University
"Synopsis" by , Some people called him an evil genius. Others just said he was a genius. Still, they unanimously saluted his brainpower. No other thinker shook Victorian England as deeply as Charles Darwin with his theory of evolution by natural selection.
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