The Lunar Men
Subtitle: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: October 30, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780374194406
First sentence: On 12 December 1731, Erasmus Darwin was born at the Old Hall in Elston, about ten miles north-east of Nottingham, the sturdy seventh child of Robert and Elizabeth Darwin.