Desmond, Adrian and James Moore — Darwin. [English edition.]
London, Michael Joseph, 1991 Bound, cloth with original dustjacket, xxi+807pp., 16x24cm.,91 b/w. ills., in very good condition. (dustjacket with minimal traces of use). ISBN 9780718134303. This biography embraces the entire scope of Victorian science, religion and society in its panoramic sweep. It puts the man and his science back into context, posing the question of how such a stickler for respectability as Charles Darwin could not only rock the scientific establishment, but construct a theory that threatened the fabric of society in the 1830s, when England teetered close to revolution? The authors explore the fiery debates during Darwin's student days in Edinburgh, his drunken revelries in prostitute-ridden Cambridge, sobering up on the "Beagle" and his clandestine work on evolution in London before fleeing to rural Kent.
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