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Chargement... The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume 2par Charles Darwin
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I think your reaction to this book will be heavily dependent on your interest in and background knowledge of geology and botany. Almost the entire main text is made up of letters dealing with technical debates in these two broad fields and a good grounding is required in order to understand even what the questions under discussion are. For me, the geology was within my grasp and the botany was not and I ended up skipping most of the latter. Those hoping for insight into Darwin's character would certainly be better off reading only the first volume of letters. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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This book, the second of three-volumes detailing the life of Charles Darwin, published five years after his death, was edited by his son Francis, who was his father's collaborator in experiments in botany and who after his death took on the responsibility of overseeing the publication of his remaining manuscript works and letters. In the preface to the first volume, Francis Darwin explains his editorial principles: 'In choosing letters for publication I have been largely guided by the wish to illustrate my father's personal character. But his life was so essentially one of work, that a history of the man could not be written without following closely the career of the author.' Among the family history, anecdotes and reminiscences of scientific colleagues is a short autobiographical essay which Charles Darwin wrote for his children and grandchildren, rather than for publication. This account of Darwin the man has never been bettered. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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