Charles Darwin

Broschiertes Buch

Evolutionary Writings

Including the Autobiographies

Herausgeber: Secord, James A

Beschreibung

This volume brings together key chapters from Darwin's most important books, including the Journal of Researches on the Beagle voyage (1845), the Origin of Species (1859), the Descent of Man (1871), and the full text of his delightful autobiography. They are accompanied by responses from 19th-century readers from around the world.

Autor

James A. Secord is the author of Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute (Princeton, 1986), and Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' (Chicago, 2000), winner of the 2002 Pfizer Prize of the History of Science Society. He has edited Lyell's Principles of Geology for Penguin.

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780199580149
• ISBN-10: 0199580146
• Artikelnr.: 28383376