title: Darwin's Notebook: The Life, Times, and Discoveries of Charles Robert Darwin
author:  Jonathan Clements 
description: <div><B>Jonathan Clements</B> is a writer specializing in history and biography. He is the author of more than a dozen biographies of prominent people, including Marco Polo, Mao, and Confucius. He lives in London.</div>
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  # Also by Janet Browne
  
  
  _The Secular Ark: Studies in the History of Biogeography_  
   _Dictionary of the History of Science_ (co-editor)  
   _Voyage of the Beagle: Charles Darwin’s Journal of Researches_ (co-editor)  
   _Charles Darwin: Voyaging_
  
  
  
  
  
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  Darwin at Down House.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK  
  PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.
  
  
  Copyright © 2002 by Janet Browne  
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  eISBN: 978-0-307-79368-3
  
  
  Library of Congress Control Number: 200