Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants: A Tour of His Botanical Legacy

by Kenneth Thompson

For many people, the story of Charles Darwin goes like this: he ventured to the Galapagos Islands on the Beagle, was inspired by the biodiversity of the birds he saw there, and immediately returned home to write his theory of evolution. But this simplified narrative is inaccurate and lacking: it leaves out a major part of Darwin's legacy. He published On the Origin of Species nearly thirty years after his voyages. And much of his life...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022667567X
• ISBN13: 9780226675671
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.9"