'This is a book that required a great many research hours, the kind of
volume you may be glad someone took the time to compile.'The Quarterly
Review of Biology This is the ultimate guide to the life and work of
Charles Darwin. The result of decades of research through a vast and
daunting literature which is hard for beginners and experts alike to
navigate, it brings together widely scattered facts including very many
unknown to even the most ardent Darwin aficionados. It includes hundreds
of new discoveries and corrections to the existing literature. It
provides the most complete summaries of his publications, manuscripts,
lifetime itinerary, finances, personal library, friends and colleagues,
opponents, visitors to his home, anniversaries, hundreds of flora,
fauna, monuments and places named after him and a host of other topics.
Also included are the most complete lists (iconographies) ever created
of illustrations of the Beagle, over 1000 portraits of Darwin, his wife
and home as well as all known Darwin photographs, stamps and
caricatures. The book is richly illustrated with 350 images, most
previously unknown.