An Appetite for Wonder : The Making of a Scientist de Dawkins, Richard

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Bantam Press. Very Good. 153 x 232 x 27mm. Paperback. 2013. 354 pages. <br>308 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked thr ough his wider family to accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influe nces that shaped his life and intellectual development? And who i nspired ... .

Trade Paperback. Publisher: Transworld | Utg. 2013 | Trade Paperback | 308 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life and intellectual development? And who inspired him to become the pioneering scientist and public thinker now famous (and infamous to some) around the world? In An Appetite for Wonder we join him on a personal journey back to an enchanting childhood in colonial Africa. There the exotic natural world was his constant companion. Boarding school in England at the age of eight, and, later, public school at Oundle introduce Dawkins, and the reader, to strange rules and eccentric schoolmasters, vividly described with both humorous affection and some reservation. An initial fervent attachment to Church of… Leer más

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London: Bantam, 2013. Paperback, 24 cm, 308 pp. Ills.: b/w and color illustrations. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 9780593070901. .