Edward J. Larson, Author . Basic $27.50 (336p) ISBN 978-0-465-03810-7
The isolated Galápagos Islands, lying on the equator 500 miles off the coast of Ecuador, have played a continuing role—one that Larson beautifully evokes here—in studies of evolution ever since Charles Darwin spent his...
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Edward J. Larson, Author . Modern Library $21.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-679-64288-6
Larson, a Pulitzer-winning historian (Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
), traces the history of the contentious concept of evolution from Darwin's predecessors, like Cuvier and...
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Edward J. Larson, Author . Free Press $27 (335p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9316-7
In this absorbing, brisk account, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Larson (Summer of the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
) recreates the dramatic presidential race of 1800, which, Larson...
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Edward J. Larson, Author Basic Books $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-465-07509-6
The 1925 Scopes trial involving the teaching of evolution has been shaped in current consciousness largely by Frederick Lewis Allen's 1931 book Only Yesterday and the 1960 film Inherit the Wind, based on a Broadway play. Larson explains in this...
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Edward J. Larson. Yale Univ., $16 trade paper (326p) ISBN 978-0-300-18821-9
While the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration lasted from 1897-1922, Pulitzer-winner Larson (A Magnificent Catastrophe) focuses on the British Antarctic expeditions prior to World War I in his study of the era and its accomplishments. British...
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Edward J. Larson, Author, John Dossett, Read by , read by John Dossett. Simon & Schuster Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-6904-0
John Dossett lends a melodious and erudite tone to this book about the most disastrous presidential election in American history: the 1800 contest between incumbent John Adams and his polymath v-p, populist Thomas Jefferson. Dossett's Jefferson...
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