Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796 1861

Darwin's Mentor: John Stevens Henslow, 1796 1861

Walters, Max
Walters, S. M.
Stow, E. A.

Hardcover

BiologyBotany & HorticultureEvolution

ISBN10: 0521591465
ISBN13: 9780521591461
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 13 2001
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.88
Height: 0.81 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
John Stevens Henslow is known for his formative influence on Charles Darwin, who described their meeting as the one circumstance which influenced my career more than any other. A Professor of Botany at Cambridge University, Henslow was Darwin's teacher and eventual life-long friend, but what of the man himself? In this new biography, much previously unpublished material has been carefully gathered to produce a rounded picture of a remarkable academic and Victorian philanthropist. The time in 1829-31, when Darwin walked with Henslow in and around Cambridge, was followed directly by Darwin's voyage around the world. The gradually changing relationship between teacher and pupil over the course of time is revealed through their correspondence, illuminating a remarkable friendship that persisted, in spite of Darwin's eventual atheism and Henslow's never-failing liberal Christian belief, to the end of Henslow's life.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Walters, Max

View All

Also in

Biology

View All