An Intimate History of Evolution av Alison Bashford

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<p><b>''A masterpiece of biography ... a</b><b>vivid account of a family at the heart of some of the great cultural shifts of the modern era'' John Gray, <i>New Statesman</i><br><br>''The whole of British intellectual life seems accessible through some branch of this sprawling family tree'' <i>The Guardian</i></b><br><br>In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the seemingly endless survey mission of HMS <i>Rattlesnake</i>, hopelessly in love with the young Englishwoman Henrietta Heathorn, Thomas Henry Huxley was a nobody. And yet together he and Henrietta would return to London and go on to found one of the great intellectual and scientific dynasties of their age.<br><br>The Huxley family through four generations profoundly shaped how we all see ourselves, as individuals and as a species, one among many. They worked as scientists, novelists, mystics, film-makers, poets and - perhaps above all - as public lecturers, educators and explainers.<br><br>Their spe