- Taschenbuch: 632 Seiten
- Verlag: Princeton Univ Pr; Auflage: Reprint (April 1996)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0691026068
- ISBN-13: 978-0691026060
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,3 x 15,6 x 4 cm
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After editing eight volumes of Darwin's correspondence (available from Cambridge University Press), Browne has many new insights into this complex figure. Her new book, the first volume in a planned two-volume biography, describes Darwin's childhood, education, his voyage on the Beagle, family life, and early researches to 1856, as he begins serious work on his "species book." As in Adrian Desmond and James Moore's Darwin (LJ 5/15/92), Darwin is seen more as a product of his society than in some previous biographies. Desmond and Moore delve more deeply into Darwin's university days than does Browne, while she provides a more detailed account of his Beagle voyage. While calling any Darwin biography "definitive" may be a bit optimistic, this work is certainly an important contribution to the literature on Darwin. Highly recommended for both academic and general collections.
Bruce Neville, Univ. of Texas at El Paso Lib.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
Bruce Neville, Univ. of Texas at El Paso Lib.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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This book deserves the adjectives of praise traditionally used by reviewers to describe masterpieces... It is wonderful and marvelous, even magisterial. -- Stephen Jay Gould, The New York Review of Books There is no better chronicle of Darwin as human being, friend, and indefatigable scientist, nor anywhere a richer description of his milieu, his family life, his social circle, and his scientific connections. Browne's extraordinary knowledge of the literature of the period makes her account particularly insightful... [A] masterpiece... Browne knows how to spellbind the reader... The definitive Darwin biography. -- Ernst Mayr, Newsday A wonderful and well-rounded portrait... We watch Darwin grow from a careless and happy young boy to a driven and ambitious young man, and Browne is very good at letting us see the moments when Darwin began to sense the scope of his own powers... This Darwin is remarkably real. -- Jonathan Weiner, The Washington Post Exciting and richly evocative. -- Kirkus Reviews No other biography has matched Browne's ability to capture so richly the details of Darwin's time and to convey them with such direct and engaging prose. -- Library Journal
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Janet Browne has written quite a cliff hanger. She leaves off just when Charles Darwin is going public with his then astounding theory. Hopefully Volume II is just around the corner. The agony is unbearable.
Darwin's life is painted with a broad brush. We are given a picture of natural science in Mid-Victorian England. All the players and issues taking place in natural science at that time are illuminated. Miraculously Browne pulls this off without becoming tedious, exhausting, or overhwelming the reader. It's quite a feat.
Browne gives us a peek inside Charles Darwin and we can feel the pull between what is becoming clearly evident to him and the deeply ingrained beliefs of a man who earlier in life was headed for a life as a country parson. He was also upset at how all of this was going to settle on his deeply religious wife. Browne manages this without falling into the trap of psychological analysis, Freudian or otherwise.
I wish all biographies could be as readable and as lucid as this one. As another reviewer here has said: this will become the definitive biography of Darwin's life. I agree. I would rate this book in the top 10 of books of all time on the history of science. Seeing how Darwin is still at center stage in the fight for science education in our schools, this book should be required reading for anyone interested contemporary education or science.
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Though it never lacks for details about Darwin's life, Janet Browne creates a panoramic sweep of Victorian science. One sees Darwin in full context, as a man of his time struggling with ideas that grew from his research and explorations and yet they were ideas that he himself was not truly comfortable with.
Browne presents the story without a lots of overdramatization. The book is hugely dramatic though the drama comes from the details and not the presentation. It is not a hagiography. There no kettle drums rumbling in the background.
When you read the book you will gain insights into how science grew from an amateur affectation of afternoon beetle collecting trips to the countryside, to a fully recognized profession. Browne miraculously pulls this off without ever leaving sight of Darwin and his life.
Like a good "Perils of Pauline" Saturday morning serial, the volume I leaves off at the most incisive part of Darwin's career, thus leaving thousands of readers waiting breathlessly for Volume II.
The book seems so complete so I passed on reading any other biographies of Darwin, but I did find Adrian Desmond's Huxley : From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest to be a good companion work and interim filler. T.H. Huxley took up Darwin's cause and became known as "Darwin's Bulldog" This was however just one role that Huxley filled. Huxley himself is also giant of the emerging science movement in Victorian England.
I feel that part of my life is missing until Browne's Volume II arrives.
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I read this book several years ago, and I enjoyed it tremendously. Janet, if you are listening, I am very much looking forward to the next volume. I know it can't be easy, but stick in there!
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