Darwin Darwinism Evolution Victorian History Sex Beagle


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Author:	John Bowlby	Publisher:	W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN-10:	0393029409	Subject:	Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-13:	9780393029406	Topic:	Medical
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	English
Publication Year:	1991	Condition:	Good
Special Attributes:	1st Edition

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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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Charles Darwin: A New Life 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
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"Charles Darwin: A New Life"
by John Bowlby
Used, in good condition Hardcover w/Dust Jacket!
511 Pages, Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. Press, 1991!
FIRST EDITION!
OUT OF PRINT!

For more than a century, doctors and biographers have sought to explain the nature and origin of the illnesses that often left Darwin a semi-invalid. Bowlby, a pre-eminent British child psychiatrist who died in 1990, attributes these ailments to a form of repressed and prolonged bereavement for his mother who died when Darwin was eight. Bowlby draws heavily from primary sources--Darwin's Autobiography , Cor respondence , unpublished material--as well as medical and psychological literature. The narrative is engagingly readable and focuses on the man and his personality. The maps, photos, tables, and bibliography add appreciably to the text, and the appendix ``Darwin's ill health in the light of current research'' is particularly useful.

'A vivid and engrossing account of Darwin's inner life and his search for the laws of life. We feel the durable texture of his friendships and family attachments, and we witness the slow, painful genesis of ideas that are still transforming the world.'-Geoffrey Cowley, New York Times Book Review

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Charles Darwin by John Bowlby (1991)