Charles Darwin (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Bowlby
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1809-1882
- Setting: Primarily England
- Principal Characters: Charles Darwin, Emma Wedgwood Darwin, Robert FitzRoy, Charles Lyell, Joseph Hooker, Robert Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, Josiah Wedgwood
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Science and technology
- Subjects: Europe or Europeans, Health, Birds, Genetics, South America or South Americans, Animals, Turtles, Plants, Evolution, Biology or biologists, Extinct animals
- Locales: England
The biographer of Charles Darwin confronts a major challenge: to narrate his seemingly simple domestic life in the English countryside and, at the same time, to clarify and place in their contexts his complex, revolutionary, and far-reaching intellectual achievements, for few scientists or intellectuals in history have had greater influence on their period and subsequent ones than Darwin. In his journals, correspondence, and autobiography, he recorded numerous details and anecdotes as sources for a biographer. His lengthy narrative of the five-year expedition aboard the Beagle...
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