Darwin's armada : four voyages and the battle for the theory of evolution

Author(s)

• McCalman, Iain

Bibliographic Information

Darwin's armada : four voyages and the battle for the theory of evolution

Iain McCalman

W.W. Norton, 2010, c2009

• : pbk

Note

First published in hardback 2009

Includes bibliographical references (p. 396-405) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Award-winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his staunchest supporters: Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace. Beginning with the somber morning of April 26, 1882-the day of Darwin's funeral-Darwin's Armada steps back and recounts the lives and scientific discoveries of each of these explorers, who campaigned passionately in the war of ideas over evolution and advanced the scope of Darwin's work.

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• NCID: BB04053564
• ISBN:
  • 9780393338775
• LCCN: 2009016055
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: 422 p., [17] p. of plates
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 576.82092241
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Travel
  • BLSH : Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882, Origin of the species
  • BLSH : Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 -- Travel
  • BLSH : Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, 1817-1911 -- Travel
  • BLSH : Wallace, Alfred Russel, 1823-1913 -- Travel
  • LCSH : Naturalists -- Great Britain
  • LCSH : Evolution (Biology) -- History -- 19th century