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Charles Darwin. Voyaging (Volume 1): Voyaging Vol 1 [Paperback]

Janet Browne (Author)
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Publication Date: 7 Aug 2003

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 100 years after his death. Yet, only with the publication of Voyaging, the first volume of this acclaimed biography, do we have a truly vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin as a man and a scientist.

The second and final volume of Janet Browne's biography of Darwin - The Power of Place - is also available from Pimlico.

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  • Paperback: 656 pages
  • Publisher: Pimlico; New Ed edition (7 Aug 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1844133141
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844133147
  • Product Dimensions: 15.4 x 4.6 x 23.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 319,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Brilliantly penetrating...utterly riveting" (Daily Telegraph )

"Browne knows how to spellbind the reader... The definitive Darwin biography" (Ernst Mayr New York Newsday )

"An authoritative and highly readable biography which uncovers the complex process of scientific discovery" (Independent )

"It is wonderful and marvellous, even magisterial" (Stephen Jay Gould New York Review of Books )

"Splendid. Her qualifications as a trained biologist, historian of science and skilled editor of the correspondence out her in an ideal position... A wonderful read" (Nature )

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'An astonishingly fresh picture of the great naturalist - Janet Browne's book is a triumph, the closest we can come to getting inside Darwin's mind' Sunday Telegraph (20030303)
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best biography on Darwin 24 Aug 1998
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Janet Browne's biography of Charles Darwin is the best I've read thus far. Her style is limpid and concise, and she succeeds wonderfully in taking us back to the intelectual and social atmosphere of 19th century England. Most importantly, she provides a detailed account of the dynamics on both sides of Darwin's family, and at the end we can understand many of the driving forces behind Darwin's success. Browne's book is definitively not hagiographic; rather, it tries to put Darwin in a definite context, making it clear that he benefited from many people around him. I cannot wait for the second part of her biography!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating book 9 May 2006
By S. Maurer
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After reading Origin of Species and then the Voyage of the Beagle I was eager to learn more about the "father" of evolution and I could not have hoped for a more thorough biography.

The author has clearly done a huge amount of research to provide this fascinating portrait Darwin. Providing backgrounds of his immediate ancestors, then his childhood leading through to adulthood and his own family. Allowing you to understand how and why his line of thinking led him to write the Origin of Species.

It's well written and absorbing. I often forgot I was on the tube whilst engrossed.

When I got to the end I immediately went hunting for the second instalment.
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5.0 out of 5 stars **** Beautiful **** 14 Oct 2009
By Douglas Jamieson
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Stunning two volume biography. I've read it twice now. Once for the content and once for the sheer pleasure of it.
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