Product Description: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin

Product Description: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death. Darwin wrote the book, which he entitled Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character, for his family...read more

Product Description: It was never my intention to write an autobiography. Since I took to writing in my middle years I have, from time to time, related some incident of my boyhood, and these are contained in various chapters in The Naturalist in La Plata, Birds and Man, Adventures among Birds, and other works, also in two or three magazine articles: all this material would have been kept back if I had contemplated such a book as this...read more

Product Description: "[Terry and Brooke]'s quest to understand Jefferies' ideas of a 'soul-life' has brought the British writer's ideas alive…"—THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE"…an oustanding new book…a first–rate tribute to an author who now has been rescued from obscurity...read more

"The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness."T H Huxley (1887)Darwin is one of the most famous scientists in history. But he was not alone. Comparatively forgotten, Wallace independently discovered evolution by natural selection in Southeast Asia. This book is based on the most thorough research ever conducted on Wallace's voyage. Closely connected, but worlds apart, Darwin and Wallace's stories hold many surprises. Did Darwin really keep his theory a secret for twenty years? Did he plagiarise Wallace? Were their theories really the same? How did Wallace hit on the solution, and on which island? This book reveals for the first time the true story of Darwin, Wallace and the discovery that would change our understanding of life on Earth forever.

Product Description: Dr Erasmus Darwin seemed an innocuous Midlands physician, a respectable stalwart of eighteenth-century society. But there was another side to him. Botanist, inventor, Lunar inventor and popular poet, Darwin was internationally renowned for breathtakingly long poems explaining his theories about sex and science...read more

Product Description: Second part of auto about leaving his Hollywood life for wilderness writing

Product Description: Thomas Henry Huxley ,PC,FRS(1825 1895) was one of the most distinguished British scientists of the 19thc and was called Darwin's Bulldog for his advocacy of Darwin's theory of evolution. He was instrumental in developing university level science education in Britain but what is not well known is his enormous contribution to American science and science education especially in the decade 1870 to 1880...read more

Product Description: In the mid-1850s, no scientist in the British Empire was more visible than Richard Owen. Mentioned in the same breath as Isaac Newton and championed as Britain’s answer to France’s Georges Cuvier and Germany’s Alexander von Humboldt, Owen was, as the Times declared in 1856, the most “distinguished man of science in the country...read more

Product Description: Brings together a categorized and indexed consolidation of W H Hudson's statements.

In the 17th century Britain, a breed of 'curious' gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stolen into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son were at the vanguard of this change - as gardeners and as collectors. This book presents their drama. It is useful for gardeners and non-gardeners.