Origins - Anniversary Edition - Selected Letters of Charles Darwin, 1822-1859

Informationen zum Autor Frederick Burkhardt (1912-2007) was the founder of the Charles Darwin Correspondence Project! and the associated high profile book series The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press! 1985- ). He was President of the American Council of Learned Societies from 1957 to 1974! and in 2003 was awarded the American Philosophical Society Thomas Jefferson Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Arts! Humanities! or Social Sciences. Klappentext This special anniversary edition of Burkhardt's bestselling work! "Origins: Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection 1825-1859!" now includes previously unpublished letters. Zusammenfassung Special Anniversary Edition of the best-selling Burkhardt: Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection 1825–1859 now with new, previously unpublished letters. This fascinating selection of the actual letters written to and from Darwin charts some of the most exciting periods in the life of one of the most controversial thinkers of modern times. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Stephen Jay Gould; Introduction; Note on the text; Acknowledgements; Symbols and abbreviations; Prologue; Shrewsbury; Edinburgh; Cambridge; The offer; The voyage: South America - East Coast; The voyage: South American - West Coast; Homeward Bound; 1837; 1838; 1839-1843; 1844; 1845-1846; 1847; 1848; 1849; 1850; 1851; 1852-1854; 1855.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Burkhardt, Charles Darwin, Charles R. Darwin
• Assisted by: Frederick Burkhardt (Editor), Stephen Jay Gould (Foreword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2008
• EAN: 9780521898621
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89862-1
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Briefwechsel (div.), Darwin, Charles