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Charles Darwin: A Biography, Vol. 1 - Voyaging

July 13, 2014

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Charles Darwin: A Biography, Volume 2: The Power of Place

About this book

The concluding volume of Janet Browne's acclaimed biography covering the transformation in Darwin's life after the first and unexpected announcement of his and Alfred Russel Wallace's theory of evolution, followed by the publication of Darwin's influential Origin of Species a year later in 1859.

From the publisher's announcement:

'I never saw a more striking coincidence,' said Darwin unhappily in 1858. Unknown to him, Alfred Russel Wallace had arrived independently at the same theory of evolution by natural selection. This concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography covers the transformation in Darwin's life after the first unexpected announcement of his and Wallace's theory, followed by publication of Darwin's influential The Origin of Species a year afterwards in 1859. Always a private man by nature, Darwin suddenly found himself a controversial figure, reviewed and discussed in circles that stretched far beyond the boundaries of Victorian science, one of the leading thinkers of the nineteenth century. The second half of Darwin's life was inextricably interwoven with the story of The Origin of Species, and this biography looks closely at the w

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Reading the Best Biographies of All Time

Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker
by A. N. Wilson
448 pages
Harper
Release Date: December 12, 2017

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As a college science major I am instinctively drawn to biographical subjects who were influential in STEM-related fields. Charles Darwin is one of many scientists I plan to learn more about (on both a professional and a personal level) through a penetrating biography.

While it is common to run across uninspiring, poorly-written or dense biographies from which a subject’s life cannot be fully extracted, it is extremely rare to encounter a book about an interesting person that proves to be the object of universal scorn.

A.N. Wilson’s “Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker” is one of those biographies.

Reading reviews of this biography is an almost surreal experience. The Washington Post suggests the book is an “attack on evolution, disguised as a Darwin biography” and The Wall Street Journal uses a play on words when describing the biography as “…the Origin of the Specious.” Only Kirkus seems to have anything positive to say when they characterize the book as “illuminating.”

I’m almost tempted to read this biography just to see how bad it