Charles Darwin

Voyaging
by Janet Browne

Hailed as “the definitive Darwin biography” by Ernst Mayr in Newsday, Voyaging begins to unravel the central enigma of Darwin’s career: how an amiable young gentleman, born into a prosperous provincial English family, grew into a thinker capable of challenging the most basic principles of religion and science. The first in a two-volume biography, Voyaging shows the young, inquisitive Darwin gradually mature, set off on his voyage on the Beagle, and finally realize the ideas that would burst upon the world in Origin of Species.

“A wonderful and well-rounded portrait… Browne is very good at letting us see the moments when Darwin began to sense the scope of his own powers… This Darwin is remarkably real.” –Jonathan Weiner, Washington Post 

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