THE CORRESPONDENCE OF CHARLES DARWIN - VOLUME 5: 1851-1855.

DARWIN, Charles, Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith (Eds.).

ISBN 10: 0521255910 / ISBN 13: 9780521255912

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989

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8vo. pp xxix, 705. Original publisher's black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and a racing green title panel at spine. Green dust jacket with black and white lettering. Illustrated in black and white throughout. ISBN: 0521255910 May show some slight shelfwear but content clean and unread. Very good indeed in very good indeed dust jacket.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF CHARLES DARWIN - VOLUME 5: 1851-1855.
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Date de parution: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521255910
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521255912
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette

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Synopsis

The correspondence in this volume reveals the two sides of Darwin's life with new intensity.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The correspondence in this volume reveals the two sides of Darwin's life in a new intensity. It opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin's oldest and best loved daughter, Anne, and goes on to show how Darwin sought relief from his loss through work, with a single-minded but increasingly weary commitment to the completion of his cirripede monographs. In September 1854, as soon as the final proofs of the last barnacle volume had been returned to the printer, Darwin threw himself into a resumption of his species work. He followed up old ideas by initiating new experiments and establishing a worldwide correspondence that encompassed geographical distribution, variation, and plant and animal breeding. The wealth of letters through 1855 makes evident the frenzy of intellectual activity that followed Darwin's terse announcement in his diary: 'Sept. 9th (1854) began sorting notes for Species Theory ...'