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Charles Darwin : Victorian Mythmaker / A.N. Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, A. N., 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
- Darwin, Charles.
- Naturalists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Naturalists.
- Great Britain.
- Local Subjects:
- Naturalists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Other Title:
- Victorian Mythmaker
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- A radical reappraisal of Darwin argues that the evolution pioneer was less of an original scientific intellect than a ruthless self-promoter who did not give credit to the actual sages whose ideas he advanced in his history-shaping book.
- Contents:
- A symbol
- The old hat
- What he owed to Edinburgh
- Cambridge: Charles Darwin, Gent
- The voyage of the Beagle
- 'Blackbirds... gross-beaks... wren'
- The ladder by which you mounted
- Lost in the vicinity of Bloomsbury
- Half-embedded in the flesh of their wives
- An essay by Mr. Wallace
- A poker and a rabbit
- Is it true?
- The Oxford Debate and its aftermath
- Adios, theory
- Immense generalizations
- Evolution old and new
- Mutual aid.
- Notes:
- Originally published in Great Britain in 2017 by John Murray (Publishers), an Hachette UK Company.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-422) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780062433497
- 0062433490
- OCLC:
- 972213903
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