Charles Darwin: The Power of Place

Title: Charles Darwin: The Power of Place Author: E Janet Browne ISBN: 9780679429326 Publisher: Knopf Published: 2002 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: Used: Good H 1628917 Publisher Description: In 1858 Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside, respected by fellow biologists and well liked among his wide and distinguished circle of acquaintances. He was not yet a focus of debate; his "big book on species" still lay on his study desk in the form of a huge pile of manuscript. For more than twenty years he had been accumulating material for it, puzzling over questions it raised, trying--it seemed endlessly--to bring it to a satisfactory conclusion. Publication appeared to be as far away as ever, delayed by his inherent cautiousness and wish to be certain that his startling theory of evolution was cor