Darwin (Desmond & Moore)
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English: Darwin (ISBN 0446515892) is a critically acclaimed biography of Charles Darwin by Adrian Desmond and James Moore (1991). This gallery is intended to consist of all free content images in the book (although the images may not be exactly the same as those in the book). Some images may not yet have been added to this gallery, some may not have been uploaded to Commons, and some may be ineligible because of copyright. Captions (especially longer ones) will usually be paraphrased from those of the book, to avoid any potential copyright concerns.
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Authors
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James Moore, coauthor
Plates
[edit]The book has 91 plates (less in some editions)
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3. Charles and his younger sister Catherine, the youngest children in the family
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9. Darwin's second cousin William Darwin Fox, who sparked his interest in beetles while at Cambridge
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11. HMS Beagle, Darwin's home on the sea.
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15. Emma Wedgwood in 1839, at the time she married her first cousin Charles Darwin
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18. Charles with his eldest son William, 1842. Interestingly, this is the only known photograph that shows him with a family member.
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20. Photo of Annie Darwin, born 1841. She died in Easter 1851, causing her father to lose what remained of his faith in Christianity.
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24. Finally finished studying barnacles in 1854 - "the strain had begun to show".
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31. Thomas Henry Huxley, "lecturing on the gorilla".