Darwin's luck : chance and fortune in the life and work of Charles Darwin / Patrick H. Armstrong.

  • Armstrong, Patrick, 1941-
Date:
2009
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London : Continuum, 2009.

Physical description

xv, 195 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xiii]-xv) and index.

Contents

Charles Darwin's origins -- To lose one parent is a misfortune : childhood and adolescence -- Cambridge : it's who you know as much as what you know -- The offer and its acceptance -- Sailor's luck -- Scientific development aboard HMS Beagle : seeing things in the right order -- Darwin's women -- From London's 'dirt, noise, vice and misery' to an 'extraordinarily rural and quiet village' -- The Down and up of family life -- The dawning of a dangerous idea -- The origins of the Origin -- Afterwards -- Last things -- Good luck or bad luck?

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    BZP (Darwin)
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781847251503
  • 1847251501