← Back to discovery

Darwin's ghosts

Rebecca Stott

2012383 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2012
first published
  • 2012Bloomsbury · 383 pages · ENGISBN 9781408809082
  • 2012Spiegel & Grau · 396 pages · ENGISBN 9781400069378

Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected criticism. Letters were arriving every day like swarms, some expressing praise, most outrage and accusations of heresy. But the letter from the Reverend Powell was different.

When and where

ThemesNature
How do you feel?