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Charles Darwin: Voyaging
Janet Browne
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Description for Charles Darwin: Voyaging
Paperback. Few lives of great men offer so much interest, and so many mysteries, as the life of Charles Darwin, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries and controversies more than 100 years after his death. His biography is recounted here, by trained biologist and historian of science, Janet Browne. Num Pages: 656 pages, 32pp b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JH; BG; PSAJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 48. Weight in Grams: 864.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844133147
SKU
V9781844133147
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About 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.
Reviews for Charles Darwin: Voyaging
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more