Darwin's Armada Iain McCalman (University of Sydney)

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Sparkling...an extraordinary true-adventure story, complete with trials, tribulations and moments of exultation. -Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution by Iain McCalman (University of Sydney)

Award-winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his staunchest supporters: Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace. Beginning with the somber morning of April 26, 1882-the day of Darwin's funeral-Darwin's Armada steps back and recounts the lives and scientific discoveries of each of these explorers, who campaigned passionately in the war of ideas over evolution and advanced the scope of Darwin's work.

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McCalman evokes the physical hardships and social intricacies navigated by his heroes...and also the feel of an era when 'adventure and science went hand in hand.' -- The New Yorker
[McCalman's] narratives are as much bildungsroman as scientific analysis, showing how the four voyagers were steeled and transformed by the demands of the sea and the wondrous unfamiliarity of life on distant shores. -- The New York Times Book Review

About Iain McCalman (University of Sydney)

Iain McCalman is an award-winning professor at the , where he lives. He has served as president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and director of the Humanities Research Centre at ANU. He lives in Sydney.

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CIN0393338770A

ISBN 13

9780393338775

ISBN 10

0393338770

Title

Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution by Iain McCalman (University of Sydney)

Author

Iain McCalman (University of Sydney)

Condition

Used - Well Read

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Year published

2010-11-16

Number of pages

448

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N/A

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