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Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. Volume II of a Biography. .(Book Review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20030201
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Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. Volume II of a Biography. Janet Browne. Jonathan Cape. [pounds sterling]25.00. 591 pages. ISBN 0-224-04212-2. With this second volume Prof. Brown brings to a conclusion her monumental and definitive biography of Darwin. She begins in 1858, the year before Darwin published his ground-breaking book, On the Origin of Species. She contrasts his comfortable life with the revolutionary ideas he entertained. 'Much of the lasting fascination of Darwin's life story', she writes, 'surely lies in the relationship between this prolific inner world of the ...

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