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EYE OF THE STORM JANET BROWNE'S CHARLES DARWIN: THE POWER OF PLACE TRACES THE EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION THE SCIENTIST UNLEASHED ON HIS PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL LIVES CHARLES DARWIN: THE POWER OF PLACE BY JANET BROWNE KNOPF, 591 PP., ILLUSTRATED, $37.

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20021020
Author:Harriet Ritvo

The first volume of Janet Browne's engaging and magisterial biography of Charles Darwin, "Charles Darwin: Voyaging" (Knopf, 1995), ended with Darwin's resolution to write a book explaining the theory of evolution through natural selection or descent with modification, which he had been refining and elaborating for more than 20 years. The second volume opens with an event that spurred him to present his ideas more quickly and concisely - as well, perhaps, as more accessibly and attractively - than he had intended. Evolutionary thinking was in the progress-oriented intellectual air of ...

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