Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Charles Darwin

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ISBN 10 : 0243023731 ISBN 13 : 9780243023738

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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PREFACE. I}f preparing this volume, wl1ich is practicany an abbreyiation of the Life and Letters (1887), my aim has been to retain as far as possible tho personal parts of those volumes. To render this feasible, large numbers of the more purely scientific letters afC omitted, or represented by the citation of a few scntences.* In certain periods of my father's life tho scientific and the personal elements run a parallol course, rising alld falling together in their degree of interest. Thus the writing of the Origin of Species, and its publication, appeal equally to tIle reader who follows my f.lthc1"s career from interest in the man, and to the naturalist who desires to know something of this turning point in the history of Biology. This I,art of the story has therefore been tolll 'with nearly the full amount of available detail. In arranging my material I ha,o followed a roughly chronological sequence, but the character and "Variety of my father's researches mak

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0243023731
• ISBN 13: 9780243023738
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 361
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