Charles Darwin - The Autobiography of Charles Darwin | Audiobook

🌐 Listen and download this audiobook on 3ords.com: https://3ords.com/en/book/the-autobio... 🎧 Use our Telegram bot: https://t.me/its3ordsBot?start=g2010 📚 TOP-3 similar books:    • Spence - An Introduction to Entomology: Vo...      • Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant - Perso...      • Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Confessions of...   📚 The Autobiography of Charles Darwin ✍️ Author: Charles Darwin 📖 Excerpt from the book: [My father’s autobiographical recollections, given in the present chapter, were written for his children,—and written without any thought that they would ever be published. To many this may seem an impossibility; but those who knew my father will understand how it was not only possible, but natural. The autobiography bears the heading, ‘Recollections of the Development of my Mind and Character,’ and end with the following note:—“Aug. 3, 1876. This sketch of my life was begun about May 28th at Hopedene (Mr. Hensleigh Wedgwood’s house in Surrey.), and since then I have written for nearly an hour on most afternoons.” It will easily be understood that, in a narrative of a personal and intimate kind written for his wife and children, passages should occur which must here be omitted; and I have not thought it necessary to indicate where such omissions are made. It has been found necessary to make a few corrections of obvious verbal slips, but the number of such alterations has been kept down to the minimum.—F.D.] A German Editor having written to me for an account of the development of my mind and character with some sketch of my autobiography, I have thought that the attempt would amuse me, and might possibly interest my children or their children. I know that it would have interested me greatly to have read even so short and dull a sketch of the mind of my grandfather, written by himself, and what he thought and did, and how he worked. I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing. I was born at Shrewsbury on February 12th, 1809, and my earliest recollection goes back only to when I was a few months over four years old, when we went to near Abergele for sea-bathing, and I recollect some events and places there with some little distinctness. My mother died in July 1817, when I ... 🏷 Tags: audiobook,biography,autobiography,Charles Darwin,evolution,science history,naturalists,origin of species,scientists,history of science,memoirs,listen online,full audiobook,non-fiction,science,great britain,classic literature,scientific biography,naturalist biography #its3ords #audiobook #book #books #audiobooks 🎧 Listen on Telegram: https://t.me/its3ordsBot?start=g2010 🌐 Listen on website: https://3ords.com/en/book/the-autobio... 📢 Our channel: https://t.me/its3ords ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This content is produced automatically with speech synthesis technology and may contain inaccuracies. This audiobook is narrated using an AI-generated voice. The voice does not represent any real person. We do not collaborate with or have any affiliation with any actors, announcers, or celebrities. 3ords.com is a technical platform intended for the automated processing and presentation of textual materials in audio form. The platform may contain materials, authors, rights holders or mentioned persons who hold special legal statuses under the laws of various countries. The platform performs no editorial selection of works and expresses neither agreement nor disagreement with the authors' opinions. Materials may be supplied by users or obtained from openly available internet sources. All works belong to their lawful rights holders. 3ords.com claims no rights to these materials and is not their author, publisher or rights holder. The project is informational and educational in nature and receives no commercial benefit. We encourage you to support authors and buy official editions. ❗ Upon a lawful claim from a rights holder, or if prohibited materials are discovered, the content will be removed immediately on request. Contact: LibertyStartups@proton.me