David Quammen

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traces the twenty-one-year period between Charles Darwin's original idea about natural selection and the publication of On the Origin of Species, in an account that draws on his secret'transmutation'notebooks and personal letters to offer insight into his experiences as a cautious naturalist. Reprint.

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Produktdetails

• Great Discoveries Nr.0
• Verlag: Norton
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Altersempfehlung: 14 bis 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780393329957
• ISBN-10: 039332995X
• Artikelnr.: 22739644

Autorenporträt

David Quammen is the author of The Song of the Dodo, among other books. He has been honored with the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an award in the art of the essay from PEN, and (three times) the National Magazine Award. Quammen is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.