Darwin's Armada: Four Voyagers to the Southern Oceans and Their Battle for the Theory of Evolution
by McCalman, Iain
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 184737266X
- ISBN 13
- 9781847372666
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Simon & Schuster, London, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 423 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Darwin's Armada tells the stories of Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Joseph Hooker and Alfred Wallace, four young amateur naturalists from Britain who voyaged to the southern hemisphere during the first half of the nineteenth century in search of adventure and scientific fame. The book traces their diverse social origins from the wealthy gentry to the working-class poor, and their education from the spires of Cambridge to the socialist debating halls of London and Wales. It charts their thrilling travels in wooden ships to the strange and beautiful lands, oceans and islands of the southern hemisphere. Encounters with the landscapes, habitats and peoples of South America, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, South East Asia and Antarctica moulded the young mariners' bodies and minds, reshaped their scientific ideas and led them, on returning to Britain, to befriend fellow voyager Charles Darwin. All three crucially influenced the publication and reception of his Origin of Species in 1859, one of the formative texts of the modern world. For the first time the Darwinian revolution of ideas is seen as a genuinely collective enterprise and one that had its birth in a series of gripping and human travel adventures in the southern hemisphere. Many of the most urgent ecological and social issues of our times are seen to be prefigured in this compelling story of intellectual discovery. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Science & Technology; Britain/UK; 19th century; History. ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781847372666. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9541. . 9781847372666
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9541
- Title
- Darwin's Armada: Four Voyagers to the Southern Oceans and Their Battle for the Theory of Evolution
- Author
- McCalman, Iain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 184737266X
- ISBN 13
- 9781847372666
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- BZDB137 History Of Science, Popular Science, Evolution, Geographical Discovery & Exploration, darwin, Science & Technology; Britain/UK; 19th century; History. EAN: 9781847372666 McCalman, Iain Darwin's Armada: Four Voyagers to the Southern
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