Charles Darwin: Voyaging

Title: Charles Darwin: Voyaging Author: Janet Browne ISBN: 9780691026060 Publisher: Princeton University Press Published: 1996 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Good H 1628914 Publisher Description: 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 a hundred years after his death. Yet only now, with the publication of Voyaging, the first of two volumes that will constitute the definitive biography, do we have a truly vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin as man and as scientist. Drawing upon much new material, supported by an unmatched acquaintance with both the intellectual setting and the voluminous sources, Janet Browne has at last been able to unravel the central enigma of Darwin's care