Life Letters Charles Darwin Including an Autobiographi… 9781108003445 VG:3283728

The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Volume 1Including an Autobiographical Chapter\nAuthor(s): Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108003445, 978-1108003445\nSynopsis\nThis book, the first of three-volumes detailing the life of Charles Darwin, published five years after his death, was edited by his son Francis, who was his father's collaborator in experiments in botany and who after his death took on the responsibility of overseeing the publication of his remaining manuscript works and letters. In the preface to the first volume, Francis Darwin explains his editorial principles: 'In choosing letters for publication I have been largely guided by the wish to illustrate my father's personal character. But his life was so essentially one of work, that a history of the man could not be written without following closely the career of the author.' Among the family histo.