An intimate history of evolution : the story of the Huxley family
Bashford, Alison, 1963-2022
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In his early twenties, poor, racked with depression, becalmed in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless survey mission of HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in love with Henrietta Heathorn, a young Englishwoman in Sydney, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody. And yet he would return to London, become one of the most famous scientists of the age and marry Henrietta. They would create a great intellectual dynasty. The Huxley family through four generations profoundly shaped how we all see ourselves. In innumerable fields observing both nature and culture, they worked as scientists, novelists, mystics, film-makers, poets and - perhaps above all - as public lecturers, educators and explainers. Their speciality was evolution in all its forms - at the grandest level of species, deep time, the Earth, and at the most personal and intimate.
Main title:
An intimate history of evolution : the story of the Huxley family / Alison Bashford.
Author:
Bashford, Alison, 1963-, author
Imprint:
UK : Allen Lane, 2022.
Collation:
xxxix, 529 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241434321 (hbk)
Dewey class:
942.080922942.08
Language:
English
Subject:
Huxley familyGreat Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th centuryGreat Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th centuryScience -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryScience -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryHistoryUnited Kingdom, Great BritainBiography: science, technology & medicineCollected biographiesEuropean historyHistory
BRN:
984420