Darwin : A Biography.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Browne, Janet.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (625 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.

Summary:

The definitive biography of Charles Darwin--now in one abridged and fully updated volume Based on the two-volume National Book Critics Circle Award-winning biography hailed as "the definitive Darwin biography" ( Newsday ) * "a wonderful and well-rounded portrait" ( The Washington Post ) * and "magnificent" and "irresistible" ( The Sunday Times ).

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Introduction

Part I. Collector

1. Bobby

2. From Medicine to Seaweed

3. "An Idle Sporting Man

4. The Professors

Part II. Traveler

5. New Horizons

6. Naturalist on the Beagle

7. Almost Another Species of Man

8. Mountains

9. Islands

10. Homeward Bound

Part III. Naturalist

11. Paradise Lost

12. "A Theory by Which to Work

13. A Man of Property

14. Forestalled but Forewarned

15. Dying by Inches

16. Ship on the Downs

Part IV. Author

17. Shipwrecked

18. "My Abominable Volume

19. Publish and Be Damned

20. Four Musketeers

21. "Darwinism

22. The Burden of Heredity

Part V. Celebrity

23. Son of a Monkey

24. Darwin in the Drawing Room

25. Eyes Among the Leaves

26. Home Is the Sailor

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Illustration Credits

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-691-24357-3

9780691243573

OCLC:

1579269033