The Darwin Experience Book Reviews

The Darwin Experience: The Story of the Man and His Theory of Evolution by John Van Wyhe (Author). Celebrating each the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s beginning and the 150th anniversary of the electrifying publication of On the Origin of Species, here’s the story of the person and the theory that opened a new chapter within the historical past of science-reworked into an enticing interactive experience that invites readers to unfold natural selection, evolution, and their challenging implications simply as Darwin’s contemporaries did a century and a half ago.

The year 2009 will certainly be Darwin-centric, with main museum exhibitions, worldwide symposiums, and rather more, all scheduled to commemorate the double anniversary of an awesome scientist and the opening volleys of an argument that still sparks debate and curiosity. Combining science, a journey, tradition, and history, this book are a chic, richly illustrated quantity that gives not simply tons of of full-color pictures but also a trove of removable facsimile paperwork that convey the topic alive.

These fascinatingly various memorabilia include letters, maps, images, sketches, newspaper articles, and extra, offering telling glimpses of Darwin’s life as never before, from his earlier expedition aboard the Beagle to his meticulous, seemingly arcane research in the Galápagos Islands to the sensible observations and theoretical conclusions that received him a pivotal place in the historical past of science.

This book is one example of how the current craze of e-books can't ever change the visceral/tactile experience of this 'guide'. I say that because this isn't simply an ebook however an unfolding expertise by intelligent inserts, drawings, etv. That pulls in the viewer/reader into darwins' world. More of a piece of paintings than just a book/journal. KUDOS!! A should purchase for any reader of pure historical past and in case you are a tactile/visual artist like myself ...effectively, run to Amazon proper now and order this gem!! 

The Darwin Experience: The Story of the Man and His Theory of Evolution 

 John Van Wyhe (Author)

64 pages

National Geographic (October 20, 2009)

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