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Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Johnson brings the gentleman-scientist and his times brilliantly into focus. From Darwin's birth into great fortune to his voyage aboard the Beagle, to the long-delayed publication of his masterpiece, Johnson delves into what made this Victorian gentleman into a visionary scientist--and into the tragic flaws that later led Darwin to support the burgeoning eugenics movement.
10) Darwin
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A picture book biography which reveals the assembling of Darwin's most profound idea: the survival of the fittest.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
On February 12, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. Each would see his life's work inspire a stark change in mankind's understanding of itself. In this bicentennial twin portrait, Adam Gopnik shows how these two giants, who never met, altered the way we think about death and time--about the very nature of earthly existence.
Author
Publisher
Rb Flash Point
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Follows Charles Darwin on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle and presents the thinking that led him to the theory of evolution and the writing of The origin of the species. Includes historical photographs and passages from Darwin's personal diary.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on his first voyage. Though he was a scientist by profession, he was an explorer at heart. While journeying around South America for the first time aboard a ninety-foot-long ship named the Beagle, Charles collected insets, dug up bones, galloped with gauchos, encountered volcanoes and earthquakes, and even ate armadillo for breakfast! The discoveries he made during this adventure would later inspire ideas that changed...
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