A Natural Calling Life, Letters and Diaries of Charles Darwin and William Darwin Fox /

• Main Author: Larkum, Anthony W. D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; History.; Philosophy.; Evolutionary biology.; Popular works.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; History of Science.; History of Philosophy.; Evolutionary Biology.; Popular Science, general.

This book provides new factual material on Charles Darwin, following many years of research into Darwin’s relationship to his cousin William Darwin Fox. It is a biographical and historical account of the letters exchanged by these two men and the diaries of W D Fox have never been accessed before. T...

Table of Contents:

• Grandfathers and Fathers
• Christ’s College, Cambridge (1824-1826)
• Charles Darwin at Cambridge: The Letters to William Darwin Fox
• Darwin’s Voyage on the Beagle
• Professions, Marriage, Families and Illness
• The “Origin of Species”
• The Most Dangerous Man in Europe: Living in the Shadow of Fame
• The Final Years.