Darwin's luck chance and fortune in the life and work of Charles Darwin / [Texte imprimé] :
Patrick H. Armstrong
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2009
- 1 vol. (XV-195 p.) : ill., carte ; 24 cm
Notes bibliogr.
Charles Darwin's origins -- To lose one parent is a misfortune : childhood and adolescence -- Cambridge : it's who you know as much as what you know -- The offer and its acceptance -- Sailor's luck -- Scientific development aboard HMS Beagle : seeing things in the right order -- Darwin's women -- From London's 'dirt, noise, vice and misery' to an 'extraordinarily rural and quiet village' -- The Down and up of family life -- The dawning of a dangerous idea -- The origins of the Origin -- Afterwards -- Last things -- Good luck or bad luck?