Those of us who believe we are familiar with Charles Darwin often think of the quiet man who went about his work with little fanfare; a man who was so gracious that when Alfred Wallace sent him a manuscript that seemed to anticipate Darwin’s own evolutionary theory, he arranged a joint reading before the Linnean Society; a man who was so retiring that he relied on Thomas Huxley to be his bulldog in debates. Darwin’s Armada will certainly shake those beliefs free from your mind.
Darwin’s Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution, by Iain McCalman