Poor Charlie, if only he knew… The year is 1816, Charlie is 7 and his mother, Susannah Wedgewood Darwin, whose constitution is frail, will pass away one year later. In the end it may be true: great men do not have a mother...
When I left the school I was for my age neither high nor low in it; and I believe that I was considered by all my masters and by my Father as a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect. To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family ".
Charles Darwin, The autobiography.
After years of searching , months of reading archives, days spent interviewing witnesses from that period and hours devoted to drinking draught beers , PiTer, Michnik and James finally deliver the one and only totally-improbable-and-utterly-uncertain definitive biography of the childhood of the man who revolutionised our vision of nature.
Here is Little Darwin…
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