Across a huge range of endeavour, 1859 was the year of mega change. At the beginning of that year Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species". By year's end, other people, discoveries and inventions had changed the world forever, and society was converging in a global culture. It was a different world back then, a changing world, a shrinking world. This entertaining book by leading science and history writer Peter Macinnis tells the story of how it came about.
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Peter Macinnis trained as a biologist, and has worked as a science teacher and museum educator. He has written social histories of sugar (Bittersweet), rockets (Rockets) and poisons (The Killer Bean of Calabar) and, for younger readers, Kokoda Track: 101 Days. He has recently completed a detailed look at the science and technology of 1859. His other titles for Murdoch Books include The Speed of Nearly Everything (Nov 2008), 100 Discoveries: The Greatest Breakthroughs in History and The Lawn: A Social History (both 2009).
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I live in Australia, but I travel a lot, mainly gathering ideas for new books. I also spend a lot of time in libraries, and sometimes in the field, because my two main areas are history and science.
I have learned the hard way to choose my locations: a recent book needed some stuff on tardigrades ("water bears") and one easy way to catch them is to use a small hand-held vacuum cleaner to grab them from trees--these are very tiny, about 0.4mm long if they are big, so effectively invisible.
I live on a main road, and without thinking, I wandered out and started vacuuming a tree. It worked, but I'm afraid I got some odd looks, some of them from drivers who should have been watching the road better.
I write for both adults and children, though I seem to get more awards for the stuff I write for children.
Current interests: Australia 1850-1867, gold, fences, monsters and silly inventions. Mainly monsters, though.
I have two blogs, neither of them an RSS feed. I'm a bit too busy writing to stay up to speed.
Writing: http://oldblockwriter.blogspot.com/
Travel: http://mcmanly.livejournal.com/
I have learned the hard way to choose my locations: a recent book needed some stuff on tardigrades ("water bears") and one easy way to catch them is to use a small hand-held vacuum cleaner to grab them from trees--these are very tiny, about 0.4mm long if they are big, so effectively invisible.
I live on a main road, and without thinking, I wandered out and started vacuuming a tree. It worked, but I'm afraid I got some odd looks, some of them from drivers who should have been watching the road better.
I write for both adults and children, though I seem to get more awards for the stuff I write for children.
Current interests: Australia 1850-1867, gold, fences, monsters and silly inventions. Mainly monsters, though.
I have two blogs, neither of them an RSS feed. I'm a bit too busy writing to stay up to speed.
Writing: http://oldblockwriter.blogspot.com/
Travel: http://mcmanly.livejournal.com/
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