Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 1 - Voyaging
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (735 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691026068 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 622 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Photos. From Publishers Weekly The centerpiece of this vivid portrait of Darwin, the first volume of a two-volume biography, 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. We glimpse many facets of Darwin: the failed medical student; the laid-back undergraduate; the impassioned abolitionist; the explorer roping cattle with gauchos on the Argentine pampas; the chronically ill country squire, the patriarchal husband and reluctant atheist whose devout Anglican wife, Emma, disapproved of his theory of human origins. . Browne, an English histor
Roald Euller said Looking forward to Vol "Looking forward to Vol 2" according to Roald Euller. Janet Browne’s Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 1 – Voyaging is the first biography of Charles Darwin I have read. I won’t try to add to the deserved high praise from other reviewers except to say that it is difficult to imagine how this effort will be surpassed in the foreseeable future. I will, however, make some specific observations which probably will not surprise those more familiar Darwin’s life.1) Darwin spent only five weeks in the Galapagos and seem. . Janet Browne’s Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 1 – Voyaging is the first biography of Charles Darwin I have read. I won’t try to add to the deserved high praise from other reviewers except to say that it is difficult to imagine how this effort will be surpassed in the foreseeable future. I will, however, make some specific observations which probably will not surprise those more familiar Darwin’s life.1) Darwin spent only five weeks in the Galapagos and seem. "BEYOND A DOUBT, THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF DARWIN YET" according to D. Blankenship. This is the first volume of two covering the life and works of Charles Darwin. I have read quite a number of books, both about and by Darwin, and this, without a doubt is the best of the biograhies as yet written to date. If covers Darwin from the beginning, up through the voyage of the Beagle, and a bit beyond. Extremely detailed and very well researched, the books reads as smoothly as any novel, yet it is truely a scholarly work. It is one of the most detailed works of this sort I . Building Darwin Janet Browne's far-reaching biography misses little in bringing us the life of the 19th Century's most controversial biologist/geologist. The first volume of a two-volume set, "Voyaging", begins (as you would expect) with his youth in the English town of Shrewsbury under his father's care. We meet his father - a Doctor and businessman, his brother - intelligent but unfocused, and his late grandfather Erasmus Darwin who was well known at the time for his eccentric and agnostic views.F
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. 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. 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.