Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution

0/5 ( ratings)

A group portrait of the three British voyagers who became fierce defenders of Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Award-winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his most vocal supporters and colleagues: 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 in time and recounts the lives and scientific discoveries of each of these explorers. The four amateur naturalists voyaged separately from Britain to the southern hemisphere in search of adventure and scientific fame. From Darwin’s inaugural trip on the Beagle in 1835 through Wallace’s exploits in the Amazon and, later, Malaysia in the 1840s and 1850s, each man independently made discoveries that led him to embrace Darwin’s groundbreaking theory of evolution. This book reveals the untold story of Darwin’s greatest supporters who, during his life, campaigned passionately in the war of ideas over evolution and who lived on to extend and advance the scope of his work. 16 pages of color illustrations.

Language: English

Pages: 422

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 2009

ISBN 13: 9780393068146

Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution

0/5 ( ratings)

A group portrait of the three British voyagers who became fierce defenders of Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Award-winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his most vocal supporters and colleagues: 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 in time and recounts the lives and scientific discoveries of each of these explorers. The four amateur naturalists voyaged separately from Britain to the southern hemisphere in search of adventure and scientific fame. From Darwin’s inaugural trip on the Beagle in 1835 through Wallace’s exploits in the Amazon and, later, Malaysia in the 1840s and 1850s, each man independently made discoveries that led him to embrace Darwin’s groundbreaking theory of evolution. This book reveals the untold story of Darwin’s greatest supporters who, during his life, campaigned passionately in the war of ideas over evolution and who lived on to extend and advance the scope of his work. 16 pages of color illustrations.

Language: English

Pages: 422

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 2009

ISBN 13: 9780393068146

More books from Iain McCalman

The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Last Alchemist: Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia

4.4/5 ( ratings)

The Enlightenment World

3.2/5 ( ratings)

Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Historical Reenactment: From Realism to the Affective Turn

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Newgate in Revolution: An Anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution

Калиостро. Последний алхимик

Newgate in Revolution: An Anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution

An Oxford Companion to The Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832

The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro

An Oxford Companion to The Romantic Age: British Culture 1776-1832

In the Wake of the Beagle: Science in the Southern Oceans from the Age of Darwin

Rate this book!

Write a review?