Buckets From An English Sea: 1832 And The Making Of Charles Darwin

... As Author Lou Rosenblatt Explains, The Year 1832 In Darwin's Life Was Crucial For The Development Of His Theory Of Evolution. A Century And A Half Of Study Of Darwin, The Man, And His Work, Including Close Readings Of His Books, Notebooks, Letters, And Even The Books He Read, Has Led To A Working Appreciation Of His Genius. The Success Of This Account Has, However, Kept Us From Seeing Several Important Issues: Most Notably, Why Did He Pursue Evolution In The First Place? While This Book Is Neither An Almanac Of 1832, Nor A Biography Of Charles Darwin (though Both Are At The Heart Of Rosenblatt's Work), Buckets From An English Sea Offers A Unique Take On The Factors That Shaped Darwin's Legendary Theory And The Making Of Him As A Scientist ...--jacket. 1. Prelude: A Word On Beginnings And Ends -- 2. Outrageous To Morality, Pernicious To Government -- 3. A Meeting At The Athenaeum -- 4. A Banker's Son And A Philosophic Radical -- 5. The Victorian Idea Of Science -- 6. The Child Is Father To The Man -- 7. Is The Map Any Good? -- 8. In The Wild -- 9. And So ... Louis B. Rosenblatt. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.