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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Named Person: | Charles Darwin; Charles Darwin |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
E J Browne |
ISBN: | 0691114390 9780691114392 |
OCLC Number: | 53399600 |
Notes: | "Volume II of a biography." |
Awards: | Winner of History of Science Society's Pfizer Award 2004 Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards: Biography 2002 |
Description: | 591 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Stormy waters -- My abominable volume -- Publish and be damned -- Four musketeers -- Eyes among the leaves -- Battle of the books -- Invalid -- The burden of heredity -- Son of a monkey -- Darwin in the drawing room -- England's green and pleasant land -- Home is the sailor. |
Other Titles: | Power of place |
Responsibility: | Janet Browne. |
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Winner of the 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Winner of the 2004 Pfizer Prize, History of Science Society "This biography is matchless in detail and compass, and one feels an abiding gratitude that Browne was willing to sacrifice so many years of her life to reconstruct Darwin's."--John Tooby, New York Times "A masterpiece... Brown took on an enormously ambitious project, and only an astonishingly skillful writer and a masterly historian could have pulled it off. She has."--Benjamin Schwarz, Atlantic Monthly "[A] sprawling, magnificent biography. Integrating the best of current scholarship with her own discoveries, Browne's account is state of the art."--Richard Milner, Scientific American "Superb... An intimate yet clinical study."--Keith Stuart Thomas, American Scientist "Soothing, unhurried, and absorbing... Browne has succeeded triumphantly in the biographer's most important task: she has made [Darwin] human."--Jane Ridley, Spectator Read more...