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Charles Darwin: Voyaging

Volume 1 of a biography

Janet Browne author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:7th Aug '03

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'An astonishingly fresh picture of the great naturalist - Janet Browne's book is a triumph, the closest we can come to getting inside Darwin's mind' Sunday Telegraph

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.

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.

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 *
Splendid. Her qualifications as a trained biologist, historian of science and skilled editor of the correspondence out her in an ideal position... A wonderful read * Nature *

ISBN: 9781844133147

Dimensions: 232mm x 154mm x 54mm

Weight: 800g

656 pages