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Charles Darwin's letters : a selection, 1825-1859 by Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Stephen Jay Gould is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In May of 2007, the Darwin Correspondence Project, based at Cambridge University, announced that it had placed an additional 5,000 largely unpublished Darwin letters onto its excellent web site (darwin-online.org.uk). This website is a treasurehouse of the first order for anyone interested in Darwin and Victornian intellectual history. Of course, Cambridge University Press has published a number of volumes in its Darwin correspondence series. However, for a quick dip into Darwin's letters, to get a feel from what is there, this collection covering the period up to the publication in 1859 of "Origin" is a handy introduction. The book has a Foreword by the late Stephen Jay Gould which places the letters into the context of what as going on in Victorian science. The editor, Frederick Burkhardt, has added a helpfujl Introduction and "Editor's Note." The letters are in chronological order, the first being written in 1825 while Darwin was studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Next are letters relating to Cambridge, the offer to make the Beagle voyage, the voyage to South America, and Homeward Bound. So there is plenty of coverage of Darwin's epic trip. But the letters continu

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Author

Charles Darwin, Frederick Burkhardt, Stephen Jay Gould

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521562126

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Poetry, Biology