Darwin's Armada: How Four Voyagers to Australasia Won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the World by Iain McCalman

Darwin's Armada: How Four Voyagers to Australasia Won the Battle for Evolution and Changed the World by Iain McCalman

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780143203230
Author: Iain McCalman
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publisher: Penguin Books
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 2010
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432 pages
Period: 19th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair to good condition. Wear to book corners and edge. Laminate is starting to fray at book cover edges. Interior and binding are still very good.

Charles Darwin, HMS Beagle, 1831-36

Sent to Cambridge to join the clergy, the young Darwin emerged with a passion for naturalism and an invitation to sail on a naval survey vessel to South America, New Zealand and Australia. That journey would change his life and the course of modern science.

Joseph Hooker, HMS Erebus, 1839-43 Inspired by Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle, assistant surgeon Hooker undertook his dramatic voyage of exploration from the Cook Islands to the Antarctic via the high society of Hobart. His botanical research added critical evidence to Darwin's developing ideas on evolution, and he became Darwin's closest ally.

Thomas Huxley, HMS Rattlesnake, 1846-50

'Darwin's Bulldog' would become evolution's most effective champion against the clergy As a brilliant, acerbic young man, Huxley was determined to make his name through discoveries in marine biology in the Southern Hemisphere but his most improbable discovery was that in Sydney he fell in love.

Alfred Wallace, the Amazon and South-East Asia, 1848-66

The least celebrated but perhaps the most brilliant of the four. During his many years in remote jungles as a professional specimen collector, the largely self-educated Wallace arrived independently at a theory of evolution by natural selection. He sent his idea to Darwin, precipitating a dramatic moral crisis and the writing of On the Origin of Species.

Darwin's Armanda is both a gripping adventure story and a brilliantly enlightening work of history, for the first time portraying the Darwinian revolution as a collective enterprise forged in Australasia. These four remarkable men did what one alone could not - combed the world for evidence of evolution by natural selection and then fought tirelessly in the social and intellectual battle that followed its famous publication 150 years ago. (back cover)

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