Darwin: A Companion - With Iconographies By John Van Wyhe

by Paul Van Helvert, John Van Wyhe

Overview

'This is a book that required a great many research hours, the kind of volume you may be glad someone took the time to compile.'
The Quarterly Review of Biology This is the ultimate guide to the life and work of Charles Darwin. The result of decades of research through a vast and daunting literature which is hard for beginners and experts alike to navigate, it brings together widely scattered facts including very many unknown to even the most ardent Darwin aficionados. It includes hundreds of new discoveries and corrections to the existing literature. It provides the most complete summaries of his publications, manuscripts, lifetime itinerary, finances, personal library, friends and colleagues, opponents, visitors to his home, anniversaries, hundreds of flora, fauna, monuments and places named after him and a host of other topics. Also included are the most complete lists (iconographies) ever created of illustrations of the Beagle, over 1000 portraits of Darwin, his wife and home as well as all known Darwin photographs, stamps and caricatures. The book is richly illustrated with 350 images, most previously unknown.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811208201
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/29/2021
Pages:	484
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.06(d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations; Introduction to the Enlarged Edition; Preface to the Second Online Edition (2007); Introduction to the First Edition (1978); Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; The Entries; Bibliography