Charles Darwin
Subtitle: a new life
By: John Bowlby.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 511
Subjects: Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.; Naturalists -- England -- Biography.
Description: One of the most influential biologists to ever live.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-487) and index.
Table of contents: title: Brief chronology; title: Prologue; title: Two distinguished grandfathers : Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood; title: Parents to genius; title: A tragic loss; a formidable presence; title: A vulnerable personality; title: Science and natural history at Edinburgh 1825-1827; title: Sport, beetles and philosophy at Cambridge 1828-1831; title: A great and uncommon opportunity 1831; title: Opportunity seized 1832-1834; title: A troubled spirit 1832-1834; title: A voyage grievously too long 1834-1836; title: Geology carries the day 1832-1836; title: From prospective parson to aspiring scientist 1832-1836; title: Three fertile years 1837-1839; title: Darwin's revolutionary ideas; title: The day of days 1838-1839; title: A bitter mortification 1839-1842; title: Early years at Down 1842-1846; title: Too dispirited to write 1847-1849; title: Grief never wholly obliterated 1850-1853; title: Everlasting barnacles, a rising star and a dark horse 1853-1854; title: Sometimes in triumph, sometimes in despair 1855-1858; title: My abominable volume 1858-1859; title: Awful battles and staunch friends 1860-1862; title: A fearful disappointment 1863-1867; title: An odious spectre 1868-1871; title: A perfectly uniform life 1871-1872; title: Almost an Indian summer 1873-1877; title: Last years 1878-1882; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix : Darwin's ill health in the light of current research