Charles Darwin: A Man of Enlarged Curiosity

New York: Harper & Row, 1981. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 9x6x1. First American edition. Tears to jacket edges. Top page ridge lightly foxed. 1981 Hard Cover. 536 pp. Charles Darwin: "A Man of Enlarged Curiosity" is a major biography of the man whose observations and formulation of history changed man's assessment of himself and the way he interprets the universe. Peter Brent's biography of Darwin is definitive and contains new unpublished material from his diaries, letters and autobiography. This original research presents a genuinely full and sympathetic portrait of Darwin's personality and psychological development. Beginning with his early life and adolescence, Brent makes Darwin come alive, and the reader gains a new understanding of this remarkable person. Brent presents a humane, gentle man whose inquisitive intelligence and self-discipline drove him to explore and question the world about him.