Charles Darwin: A New Life - Hardcover

Bowlby, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393029409 ISBN 13: 9780393029406

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1991

Synopsis

A biography of Darwin explores his early years and examines his work as a naturalist, his discoveries in the Galapagos Islands and Australia, and his years in isolation during which he wrote his controversial works

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About the Author:

John Bowlby (1907–1990) was born in London and educated at the University of Cambridge and University College Hospital in London. His research and influential publications contributed to far-reaching changes in the ways children are treated and to radically new thinking about the social emotional development of human beings.

From Publishers Weekly:

This new biography will strongly appeal both to those who know the life and work of Darwin (1809-1882) and to those less familiar with the famous naturalist and his theories of evolution and natural selection. The late Bowlby ( Personality and Mental Illness ), a British psychologist, meticulously details the family background, education, scientific discoveries and publications of a young man who nearly became a country parson but boarded the HMS Beagle instead. It's an impressive story, and Bowlby does an excellent job of explaining the scientific context of Darwin's The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man , drawing extensively from the correspondence and journals of their author and members of his professional and personal circles. Additionally, the book proposes a new theory: that Darwin's debilitating bad health and depression stemmed from the death of his mother in 1817. Bowlby suggests that this sudden and silence-shrouded bereavement, along with Darwin's difficult relationship with his father, were the psychological causes of his emotional breakdowns and episodes of boils, vomiting, elephantiasis, rashes and heart palpitations. Photos not seen by PW.
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About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0393029409
• ISBN 13: 9780393029406
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 511