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Darwin's Garden: Down House and the Origin of Species - Hardcover
Darwin's Garden: Down House and the Origin of Species - Hardcover
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Michael Boulter
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Five years after returning from his trip around the world, young Charles Darwin became the owner of Down House in Kent, England, where he moved his growing family, far away from the turmoil and distractions of London. He would live there for the rest of his life, and it would become the place where he began work on his masterpiece, On the Origin of Species.
For almost twenty years, he used the garden around him as a laboratory. In the orchard, he conducted experiments on pollination. He built a dovecote where breeding new strains of pigeons helped him understand the intricacies of generation. On his daily walk along the sandbank, he observed how plants competed for survival. In solitude he struggled with the ideas of evolution that had haunted him since his voyage, which, in turn, gave him the courage to publish his revolutionary ideas.Bringing Darwins garden to the present day, Boulter unfolds a shining portrait of the formation of one of Englands greatest thinkers and his relationship with the place he loved, and shows how his experimentsconducted more than 150 years agoare still revealing new proofs as we continue to search for the origins of life.
[A]n absorbing book. From the primroses and hot house at Down House, [Boulter] leads us on a voyage not only around Darwins thought, but that of his contemporaries and modern biology.
Sunday Telegraph (London)
Hardcover: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 1582434719
ISBN-13: 978-1582434711
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