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Charles Darwin's Notebooks From The Voyage Of The Beagle. Edited by Gordon Chancellor and John van Wyhe. Cambridge University Press 650pp, Pounds 85.00. ISBN 9780521517577. Published 2 July 2009
Whisper it quietly: 2009 has been something of a bad year for Darwin. The bicentennial celebrations of his birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species has led to an explosion of all manner of Darwin-related books, with increasingly tangential and surreal connections to the man and his work. Darwin himself would have been profoundly embarrassed and amazed by all the excitement. However, it does provide a ready excuse to revisit the great man's work in its original form, and that is what lies at the heart of Cambridge University Press' continuing efforts to publish the definitive works of Darwin in their original form.
This collection allows the reader to...