num_pages: 886
description: Hailed as the definitive biography, this monumental work explains the character and paradoxes of Charles Darwin and opens up the full panorama of Victorian science, theology, and mores. The authors bring to life Darwin's reckless student days in Cambridge, his epic five-year voyage on the Beagle, and his grueling struggle to develop his theory of evolution.Adrian Desmond and James Moore's gripping narrative reveals the great personal cost to Darwin of pursuing inflammatory truths—telling the whole story of how he came to his epoch-making conclusions.
language: English
title: Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist
titlecomplete: Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist
genres: Biography, Nature, Biology, History, Science, Natural History, Nonfiction, History Of Science, Evolution, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 741
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Biography, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Dingle Prize
category: History of Science
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company