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Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1
Thomas Henry Huxley and Leonard Huxley
Darwin's fiercest defender was a self-taught ship's surgeon named Huxley. Volume one follows his hungry youth, his voyage aboard the Rattlesnake, and his rise into the front rank of science, all in his own combative, brilliant letters. The making of Victorian England's great debater. Watch a bulldog of a mind take shape.
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30 chapters
- 1LIFE AND LETTERS OF THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
- 2IN THREE VOLUMES.
- 3VOLUME 1.
- 4PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.
- 5PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION.
- 6CONTENTS.
- 7PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION. CHAPTER 1.1. 1825-1842. CHAPTER 1.2. 1841-1846. CHAPTER 1.3. 1846-1849. CHAPTER 1.4. 1848-1850. CHAPTER 1.5. 1850-1851. CHAPTER 1.6. 1851-1854. CHAPTER 1.7. 1851-1853. CHAPTER 1.8. 1854. CHAPTER 1.9. 1855. CHAPTER 1.10. 1855-1858. CHAPTER 1.11. 1857-1858. CHAPTER 1.12. 1859-1860. CHAPTER 1.13. 1859. CHAPTER 1.14. 1859-1860. CHAPTER 1.15. 1860-1863. CHAPTER 1.16. 1860-1861. CHAPTER 1.17. 1861-1863. CHAPTER 1.18. 1864. CHAPTER 1.19. 1865. CHAPTER 1.20. 1866. CHAPTER 1.21. 1867. CHAPTER 1.22. 1868. CHAPTER 1.23. 1869.
- 8LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 9CHAPTER 1.1.
- 10CHAPTER 1.2.
- 11CHAPTER 1.3.
- 12CHAPTER 1.4.
- 13CHAPTER 1.5.
- 14CHAPTER 1.6.
- 15CHAPTER 1.7.
- 16CHAPTER 1.8.
- 17CHAPTER 1.9.
- 18CHAPTER 1.10.
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