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 a hundred years after his
death. Yet only now, with the publication of "Voyaging, " the first
of two volumes that will constitute the definitive biography, do we
have a truly vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin as man and
as scientist. Drawing upon much new material, supported by an
unmatched acquaintance with both the intellectual setting and the
voluminous sources, Janet Browne has at last been able to unravel
the central enigma of Darwin's career: how did this amiable young
gentleman, born into a prosperous provincial English family, grow
into a thinker capable of challenging the most basic principles of
religion and science? The dramatic story of "Voyaging" takes us
from agonizing personal challenges to the exhilaration of
discovery; we see a young, inquisitive Darwin gradually mature,
shaping, refining, and finally setting forth the ideas that would
at last fall upon the world like a thunderclap in "The Origin of
Species."
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