Huxley by Adrian Desmond

Huxley by Adrian Desmond

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Summary

T.H. Huxley (1825-1895) - "Darwin's bulldog" - led a far more fascinating and outgoing life than the reclusive Darwin. He did battle with God and Gladstone, sat on Royal commissions and campaigned for elementary education. This is a biography.

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Huxley by Adrian Desmond

The acclaimed two-volume biography of Huxley comes in one-volume and in paperback for the first time. 'Among historians of 19th-century British science, Adrian Desmond reigns as the current master of studies in a social context as a necessary matrix of all intellectual innovation ... In completing his two volume biography of T. H. Huxley ... Desmond has beautifully consummated the marriage of his unique skills with their ideal subject' Stephen Jay Gould, The Times 'Nobody writes scientific biography like Adrian Desmond, and this account of Huxley's progress, from Ealing, via evolution, to Eastbourne, is his best so far' Roy Porter, Times Literary Supplement
Adrian Desmond's internationally bestselling and award-winning books include Darwin (co-authored with James Moore) and The Politics of Evolution. An Honorary Research Fellow in the Biology Department at University College London, he studied at London University and Harvard, has higher degrees in vertebrate paleontology and history of science, and a Ph.D for his work on Victorian evolution.
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ISBN 13 9780140173093
ISBN 10 0140173099
Title Huxley
Author Adrian Desmond
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 1998-07-02
Number of pages 848
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.