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Darwin's armada : four voyages and the battle for the theory of evolution / Iain McCalman.
LIBRA QH361 .M37 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCalman, Iain.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evolution (Biology)--History--19th century.
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
- Hooker, Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911.
- Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895.
- Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913.
- Evolution (Biology).
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 422 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.
- Summary:
- Cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his most vocal supporters and colleagues: Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace. Beginning with the somber morning of April 26, 1882--the day of Darwin's funeral--Darwin's Armada steps back in time and recounts the lives and scientific discoveries of each of these explorers. The four amateur naturalists voyaged separately from Britain to the southern hemisphere in search of adventure and scientific fame. From Darwin's inaugural trip on the Beagle in 1835 through Wallace's exploits in the Amazon and Malaysia in the 1840s and 1850s, each man independently made discoveries that led him to embrace Darwin's groundbreaking theory of evolution. This book reveals the untold story of Darwin's greatest supporters who, during his life, campaigned passionately in the war of ideas over evolution and who lived on to extend and advance the scope of his work.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Charles Darwin and the Beagle, 1831-36
- The Prodigal Son 17
- The Philosopher at Sea 39
- Islands on His Mind 60
- Part 2 Joseph Hooker and the Ross Expedition, 1839-43
- The Puppet of Natural Selection 85
- The Travails of a Young Botanist 106
- Pilgrims and Pioneers 127
- Part 3 Thomas Huxley and the Voyage of the Rattlesnake, 1846-50
- Love and Jellyfish 151
- To Hell and Back 175
- Walking with Devils 197
- Part 4 Alfred Wallace in the Amazon and South-East Asia, 1848-66
- A Socialist in the Amazon 221
- The Law of the Jungle 245
- Boats, Birds and Peoples of Paradise 268
- Part 5 The Armada at War, 1859-82
- Taking Soundings 293
- S.O.S 317
- Battle 339.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780393068146
- 0393068145
- OCLC:
- 286488651
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