Charles Darwin: Voyaging

Jul 6, 2024 9:18 AM

Author:Janet Browne

Few lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries and controversies more than 100 years after his death. Yet, only with the publication of Voyaging, the first volume of this acclaimed biography, do we have a truly vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin as a man and a scientist.

The second and final volume of Janet Browne's biography of Darwin - The Power of Place - is also available from Pimlico.

Reviews

Brilliantly penetrating...utterly riveting

—— Daily Telegraph

Browne knows how to spellbind the reader... The definitive Darwin biography

—— Ernst Mayr , New York Newsday

An authoritative and highly readable biography which uncovers the complex process of scientific discovery

—— Independent

It is wonderful and marvellous, even magisterial

—— Stephen Jay Gould , New York Review of Books

Splendid. Her qualifications as a trained biologist, historian of science and skilled editor of the correspondence out her in an ideal position... A wonderful read

—— Nature

'The very book I have been looking for most of my life...Trunkloads of information, amazing stories and extraordinary personalities'

—— Christopher Matthew , Daily Mail

'The amount of ground covered is truly impressive...it's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science'

—— John Waller , Guardian

Rose has a subtle mind, a prose style of great clarity and a civilised and compassionate approach to what neuroscience tells us about human nature

—— Sunday Times

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