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Author_Mike Dixon
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charles darwin
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evolution by natural selection
natural selection
on the origin of species
origin of species
victorian
victorian era
water cure
yorkshire
Product details
- ISBN 9780752452838
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 07 Sep 2009
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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When the Origins of Species was published on 24 November 1859, its author, Charles Darwin, was near the end of a nine-week stay in the remote Yorkshire village of Ilkley. He had come for the 'water cure'- a regime of cold baths and wet sheets - and for relaxation. But he used his time in Ilkley to shore up support, through extensive correspondence, for the extraordinary theory that the Origin would put before the world: evolution by natural selection.
In Darwin in Ilkley, Mike Dixon and Gregory Radick bring to life Victorian Ilkley and the dramas of body and mind that marked Darwin's visit.
