{"title":"Books by Janet Browne","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780691232256","title":"Darwin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe definitive biography of Charles Darwin—now in one abridged and fully updated volume\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBased on the two-volume National Book Critics Circle Award–winning biography hailed as “the definitive Darwin biography” (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“a wonderful and well-rounded portrait” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eand “magnificent” and “irresistible” (\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJanet Browne’s award-winning, two-volume biography of Charles Darwin has been described by many reviewers as the definitive biography of the father of evolution. Now, Browne has skillfully distilled and fully revised the work into a concise yet comprehensive one-volume biography that offers significant new interpretations of Darwin and the scientific and political legacy of his discoveries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew men shook the Victorian world like Darwin did, and his story is in many ways that of the nineteenth century. His theory of evolution was born in the age of empire and had its greatest effect in the age of capitalism. It was to change the course of science, culture, and history, and deeply influence literature, art, philosophy, religion, politics, and economics. This magisterial biography follows Darwin from his early life and adventures on HMS \u003ci\u003eBeagle\u003c\/i\u003e to the tumult of becoming one of the first scientific celebrities with the publication of the \u003ci\u003eOrigin of Species\u003c\/i\u003e.  Through personal letters and archives, Browne describes the processes that brought the idea of evolution by natural selection into British society and beyond, especially Darwin’s relationship with Alfred Russel Wallace, who simultaneously proposed the same theory, and with the many people who helped and supported Darwin, including his wife Emma Wedgwood. Combining the best elements of social and intellectual biography, Browne places Darwin in cultural context and integrates his ideas with his private life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVivid, revealing, and compellingly readable, \u003ci\u003eDarwin\u003c\/i\u003e is the indispensable biography of a gentleman naturalist who would become one of the most important, influential, and controversial scientists of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368106275189,"sku":"9780691232256","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691232256_f3ad2315-e685-4945-9d2f-d728cac38779.jpg?v=1786033090"},{"product_id":"charles-darwin-volume-2","title":"Charles Darwin Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography covers the transformation in Darwin's life after the first unexpected announcement of the theory of evolution by natural selection and the publication of On t\u003ci\u003ehe Origin of Species\u003c\/i\u003e in 1859. Always a private man, Darwin found himself a controversial figure, reviewed and discussed in circles that stretched far beyond the boundaries of Victorian science. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJanet Browne here examines the wider publishing world of Victorian England and the different audiences that responded to the ideas of one of the leading thinkers of the nineteenth century and considers the Darwinian revolution from Darwin's point of view.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57481462317429,"sku":"9780712668378","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780712668378.jpg?v=1786089725"},{"product_id":"charles-darwin-voyaging","title":"Charles Darwin: Voyaging","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century science, whose ideas are still inspiring discoveries and controversies more than 100 years after his death. Yet, only with the publication of \u003ci\u003eVoyaging\u003c\/i\u003e, the first volume of this acclaimed biography, do we have a truly vivid and comprehensive picture of Darwin as a man and a scientist. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second and final volume of Janet Browne's biography of Darwin - \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Place \u003c\/i\u003e- is also available from Pimlico.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490128503157,"sku":"9781844133147","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781844133147.jpg?v=1786442016"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-janet-browne.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}