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The Young Charles Darwin

The Young Charles Darwin

by Keith Stewart Thomson

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 276 PAGES

A fine writer, scientist and historian, Thomson was an inspired candidate for this absorbing tale of how young Darwin came to change the world, concentrating on Darwin's early life as a schoolboy, a medical student at Edinburgh, a theology student at Cambridge, and a naturalist aboard the Beagle.  (NAT166, $20.00)


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