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Article: Charles Darwin on the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition.(Book review)
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- The Australian Journal of Politics and History
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Charles Darwin on the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition. Edited by David Quammen (New York, London: Sterling Publishing, 2008), xii+544pp. 25.00 [pounds sterling].
2009 is of course the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and it is 150 years since the appearance of his epoch-making Origin of Species. To mark the occasion Sterling have produced a sumptuous illustrated edition of the Origin, edited by David Quammen, author of The Reluctant Mr. Darwin. The text is the first edition of November 1859, chosen because it was "the freshest, the most dramatic and daring and consequential, of all the versions that came from Darwin's pen" (p.x). Maybe. The ...