Autobiographies

Name: Autobiographies
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ISBN: 9780140433906

ISBN-10: 0140433902

ISBN-13: 9780140433906

Edition: 2002

Authors: Charles Darwin, Michael Neve, Sharon Messenger

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Self - taught and ambitious, Darwin genuinely believed he was 'rather below the common standard in intellect' and had gained little from formal education. Yet he also knew he had seized his one great stroke of luck - the voyage of the Beagle - and forged a lasting body of knowledge through solitary determination and sheer hard work. His memoir concentrates on his public career and towering scientific achievements, but is also full of lively anecdotes about his family and contemporaries. Among these, he paints a vivid portrait of his bullying father, and pays a loving tribute to his devoted wife Emma, who was distressed by their religious differences. The figure that emerges from these pages…

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List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/24/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.80" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Chronology


Introduction


Further Reading


Note on the Texts


An autobiographical fragment


1876 May 31 - Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character


Cambridge, 1828-1831


Voyage of the Beagle: from Dec. 27, 1831 to Oct. 2, 1836


From my return to England Oct. 2 1836 to my marriage Jan. 29 1839


Religious Belief


From my marriage, Jan. 29 1839, and residence in Upper Gower St. to our leaving London and settling at Down, Sep. 14 1842


Residence at Down from Sep. 14 1842 to the present time 1876


My Several Publications


Biographical Register