{"product_id":"an-intimate-history-of-evolution-by-alison-bashford-9780141992228","title":"An Intimate History of Evolution","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo hundred years of modern science and culture, told through one family history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the HMS Rattlesnake, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Huxley family through four generations profoundly shaped how we all see ourselves, as individuals and as a species. They worked as scientists, novelists, mystics, film-makers, poets and above all, as public lecturers, educators and explainers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir speciality was evolution in all its forms. But perhaps their greatest subject was themselves. Alison Bashford's engaging and original book interweaves the Huxleys' momentous public achievements with their private triumphs and tragedies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is the history of a family, but also a history of humanity grappling with its place in nature. \u003cem\u003eAn Intimate History of Evolution\u003c\/em\u003e shows how much we owe - for better or worse - to the unceasing curiosity, self-absorption and enthusiasms of a small, strange group of men and women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46369943847148,"sku":"9780141992228","price":32.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14724263482238.jpg?v=1744800228","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/an-intimate-history-of-evolution-by-alison-bashford-9780141992228","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}