List of illustrations Acknowledgements Bibliographical note 1. Introduction 2. Charles Darwin's origins 3. To lose one parent is a misfortune: childhood and adolescence 4. Cambridge: it's who you know as much as what you know 5. The offer and its acceptance 6. Sailor's luck 7. Scientific development aboard HMS Beagle: seeing thiongs in the right order 8. Darwin's women 9. From London's 'dirt, noise, vice and misery' to an extraordinarily rural quiet village' 10. The down and up of family life 11. The dawning of dangerous ideas 12. The origin of the Origin 13. Afterwards 14. Last things 15. Good luck or bad luck? Index
Just how far did Charles Darwin's luck -- both good and bad -- affect his life and scientific discoveries?
Patrick H. Armstrong is Adjunct Associate Professor, Edith Cowan
University, Western Australia.
Patrick H. Armstrong taught Geography and Ecology at the University
of Western Australia. He has written extensively on the life and
work of Charles Darwin. Brought up in the university city of
Cambridge, among Armstrong's earliest recollections was seeing
Darwin's granddaughter painting pictures of the River Cam.
Mention in Nature, 20 November 2008
"Patrick Armstrong has approached the great man's work from a novel
perspective ... [he] gives a good summary of Darwin's achievements
for the general reader" - Times Higher Education
"Patrick Armstrong has written a charming biography, dealing with
Darwin's voyage on the Beagle, his time at Down House near Bromley,
his life with his family, the trauma of the death of some of his
children, and, of course, his science." Church Times. 15 May
2009.
"The book has a quite wonderful cover and numerous illustrations --
many of them photographs taken by the geographer author." - Church
Times. 15 May 2009.
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