

Ladataan... Charles Darwin: Voyaging (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 1995; vuoden 1996 painos)– tekijä: Janet Browne
Teoksen tarkat tiedotCharles Darwin: A Biography, Volume 1: Voyaging (tekijä: Janet Browne) (1995)
![]() Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. At the close of this 550 page biography of Darwin's life up to age 49, I was disappointed that I would have too wait to read the second volume. You might think that 200 pages on Darwin's early life is too much, but Browne reveals his early interest in nature and offers convincing evidence that Darwin was not the home-bound hypochondriac I at least imagined before reading this biography. We tend to focus too much on natural selection and evolution, and not enough on his studies of geology and taxonomy, not to mention Darwin's successful fossil-hunting in South America. Sound intriguing? It is! It's also very illuminating about how Darwin struggled to explain species variability and to accept evolution as a fact, and how he became a masterful politician in the scientific circles of his day. Absorbing. I personally like science writing that isn't overly stylistic. It tends to distract me from the content of the book (I think Gould fits in the overly stylistic category). This book was written in a straight-forward manner, and provides a fascinating account of Darwin's life up to the point where he's about to write the Origin of Species. näyttää 5/5 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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Browne's scholarship yields enormous clarity and breadth of vision. It's not just a brilliant biography and contextual history, but sets challenging standards for the writing of biography in general. This is certainly the best biography I have read in a very long time.
I'm busy with the second volume now. Review coming when done! (