Darwin's Armada

Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution

Iain McCalman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

448 Seiten

2010
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-33877-5 (ISBN)

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"Sparkling…an extraordinary true-adventure story, complete with trials, tribulations and moments of exultation." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Award-winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his staunchest supporters: Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace. Beginning with the somber morning of April 26, 1882—the day of Darwin's funeral—Darwin's Armada steps back and recounts the lives and scientific discoveries of each of these explorers, who campaigned passionately in the war of ideas over evolution and advanced the scope of Darwin's work.

Iain McCalman is an award-winning professor at the , where he lives. He has served as president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and director of the Humanities Research Centre at ANU. He lives in Sydney.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.11.2010
Zusatzinfo	16 pages black-and-white illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	142 x 211 mm
Gewicht	551 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
ISBN-10	0-393-33877-0 / 0393338770
ISBN-13	978-0-393-33877-5 / 9780393338775
Zustand	Neuware