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Darwin, Charles.(Charles Darwin: The Power of Place)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
From: Biography
Date: 20030622
Author:Larson, Edward J.; Thomson, Keith Stewart
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. Janet Browne. New York: Knopf, 2002. 591 pp. $37.50.
"Janet Browne's new book is the long-awaited second and final volume of her superb biography of Darwin. It is hard to imagine that anyone will attempt another biography in the near future, let alone be able to better this one.... Browne brings out the pattern in Darwin's work: study, experimentation, collection of data, and analysis were at first a matter of intense pleasure, but writing progressively produced illness and collapse."
Keith Stewart Thomson. American Scientist 91.1 ...
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