Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England
by Jones, Professor Steve
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 140870000X
- ISBN 13
- 9781408700006
- Seller
-
ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Little, Brown. Very Good/Very Good. 2009. Hard Cover. 8vo 140870000X Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 320 pages clean and tight. The Origin of Species is the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure the genius of Charles Darwin's other works. The Beagle voyage, too, occupied only five of the fifty years of his career. He spent only five weeks on the Galapagos and on his return never left Britain again. Darwin wrote six million words, in nineteen books and innumerable letters, on topics as different as dogs, barnacles, insect-eating plants, orchids, earthworms, apes and human emotion. Together, they laid the foundations of modern biology. In this beautifully written, witty and illuminating book, Steve Jones explores the domestic Darwin, the sage of Kent, and brings his work up to date. Great Britain was Charles Darwin's other island, its countryside as much, or more, a place of discovery than had been the Galapagos. It traces the great naturalist's second journey across its modest landscape: a voyage not of the body but of the mind. .
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 145213
- Title
- Darwin's Island: The Galapagos in the Garden of England
- Author
- Jones, Professor Steve
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 140870000X
- ISBN 13
- 9781408700006
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2009
Terms of Sale
CHARLES BOSSOM
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Please contact me if you have any problem with your order by e-mail charles.bossom@googlemail.com
About the Seller
CHARLES BOSSOM
Biblio member since 2010
ELY, Cambridgeshire
About CHARLES BOSSOM
Charles Bossom has worked in the Book Trade since 1963, commencing at WH Smith Oxford and retiring in 1999 as Regional Manager Central England. The Charles Bossom bookselling business was started in early 2000. We offer a changing selection of old and out-of-print books in a wide range of subjects. We frequently add new items to our stock so visit us regularly.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...