The Origin of Species is the most famous book in science but its stature tends to obscure the genius of Darwin's other works. The Beagle voyage occupied only five of the fifty years of his busy career. His Galapagos visit lasted just five weeks and on his return he never left Britain again. Darwin spent forty years working on the plants, animals and people of his native land, and wrote ninetten books and innumerable letters, on topics as different as dogs and barnacles, orchids and earthworms, apes and human emotion. Together, they laid the foundations of modern biology. Jones explores the domestic Darwin, the sage of Kent, and Darwin's other island - Great Britain...