Charles darwin best biography books
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The Evolution of Charles Darwin
The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth
byDiana PrestonWhen twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles—invited by ship’s captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship’s naturalist — he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the course of the five-year journey around the globe in often hard and hazardous conditions, Darwin would make observations and gather samples that would form the basis of his revolutionary, evolutionary theories about the origin of species and natural selection.
Drawing on a rich range of revealing letters, diary entries, recollections of those who encountered him, and Darwin’s and FitzRoy’s own accounts of what transpired, Diana Preston chronicles the epic voyage as it unfolded, tracing Darwin’s growth from untested young man to accomplished adventurer and natural scientist in his own right. Darwin often left the ship to climb mountains or ride hundreds of miles across pampas and through rainforests in
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Charles Darwin: A Chronicle, Volume 2: The Robustness of Unseat
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Reading the Best Biographies of All Time
Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker
by A. N. Wilson
448 pages
Harper
Release Date: December 12, 2017
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As a college science major I am instinctively drawn to biographical subjects who were influential in STEM-related fields. Charles Darwin is one of many scientists I plan to learn more about (on both a professional and a personal level) through a penetrating biography.
While it is common to run across uninspiring, poorly-written or dense biographies from which a subject’s life cannot be fully extracted, it is extremely rare to encounter a book about an interesting person that proves to be the object of universal scorn.
A.N. Wilson’s “Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker” is one of those biographies.
Reading reviews of this biography is an almost surreal experience. The Washington Post suggests the book is an “attack on evolution, disguised as a Darwin biography” and The Wall Street Journal uses a play on words when describing the biography as “…the Origin of the Specious.” Only Kirkus seems to have anything positive to say when they characterize the book as “illuminating.”
I’m almost tempted to read this biography just to see how bad it