The Quotable Darwin Hardcover - 2017
by Browne, Janet [Editor]
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- Title The Quotable Darwin
- Author Browne, Janet [Editor]
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Date 2017-10-31
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # N-gj24-11794
- ISBN 9780691169354 / 0691169357
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 7.5 x 4.8 x 1.4 in (19.05 x 12.19 x 3.56 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Natural history, Darwin, Charles
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017003239
- Dewey Decimal Code 576.820
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From the rear cover
"If anyone ever asks me which figure from history I'd invite to a dinner party, my instant answer will be Charles Darwin. This book of quotations is one long argument for his profundity, warmth, charm, wit, and humanity. Even readers who already know him well will discover something new and delightful here."--Jonathan Weiner, author of the Pulitzer Prize--winning The Beak of the Finch
"Nobody knows Darwin as Janet Browne does. Her intimate familiarity with the subject shows here in an abundance of well-chosen quotations. Through Darwin's own words, we learn how the aspiring naturalist matured with experience into the scientist whose revolutionary theory on evolution has been described as the greatest intellectual contribution to the nineteenth century. The portrait is vivid and truthful."--Peter R. Grant, coauthor of 40 Years of Evolution: Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island
"An enlightening and entertaining collection of Darwin's thinking on a wonderful diversity of topics, personal and scientific. The Quotable Darwin enables readers to see and understand Darwin in a new way, through his own words and those of his contemporaries. His humor, humility, frustrations, exultations, and more come through nicely in these well-selected quotes."--James T. Costa, author of Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species
