Darwin's Garden: Down House and the Origin of Species - Softcover

"Reveals the man of his time as well as the scientific thinker far ahead of it." --Publishers Weekly

"[A]n absorbing book. From the primroses and hot house at Down House, [Boulter] leads us on a voyage not only around Darwin's thought, but that of his contemporaries and modern biology." --Sunday Telegraph (London)

"An engaging and fascinating tour through the life and the work of Darwin--and what Darwin's legacy means for our view of the world." --Professor Sir Peter Crane, Former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

"The ideas explored are thought-provoking, and there can be no doubt that the garden at Down had an extremely important role in Darwin's work." --Nature (International Weekly Journal of Science)

Provides insight to the mind of this naturalist who, having returned from his trip on the HMS Beagle, spent the rest of his life at his home in Kent, England, studying nature in his garden, breeding a new strain of pigeons, and writing his revolutionary book, On the Origin of Species.