Charles Darwin's letters: a selection.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1998. reprint). Octavo, softcover. More
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1998. reprint). Octavo, softcover. More
[New York]: Harper Collins Publishers, 2003. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. This is the remarkable story of how a misguided decision by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, precipitated his employment of a young naturalist named Charles Darwin. Also available in hardback see stock id: 19419. More
Atlantic Monthly Press, Octavo, dustwrapper, text illustrations. Draws on a rich range of sources including letters, diary enteries and the accounts of Darwin and Fitzroy. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, This fascinating collection of essays exposes us as the animals that we are while explaining behaviours that are deeply and recognizably human. The first section, 'Our Genes and Who We Are', focuses on our genetic endowment and the forces it creates in our lives..... More
Harpenden: Brambleby Books, 2014. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, illustrations, maps, graphs, tables. The African Queen is one of the world's commonest butterflies, principally in Africa and Asia. The book concerns its lifecycle and ecology, behaviour, genetics, host preferences, parasites and migration, and especially its phylogeny and evolution. This is..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. What sort of person was the young naturalist who developed an evolutionary idea so logical, so dangerous, that it has dominated biological science for a century and a half? How did the quiet and shy Charles Darwin produce..... More