Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

The Monk in the Garden:

The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendal, the Father of Genetics
Front Cover
18 Reviews
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000 - Science - 292 pages
In THE MONK IN THE GARDEN, award-winning author Robin Marantz Henig vividly evokes a little-known chapter in science, taking us back to the birth of genetics, a field that continues to challenge the way we think about life itself. Shrouded in mystery, Gregor Mendel's quiet life and discoveries make for fascinating reading. Among his pea plants Henig finds a tale filled with intrigue, jealousy, and a healthy dose of bad timing. She "has done a remarkable job of fleshing out the myth with what few facts there are" (Washington Post Book World) and has delivered Mendel's story with grace and glittering prose. THE MONK IN THE GARDEN is both a "classic tale of redemption" (New York Times Book Review) and a science book of the highest literary order.
  

What people are saying - Write a review

User ratings

5 stars
4
4 stars
3
3 stars
5
2 stars
4
1 star
2

Review: The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics

User Review  - Eric Bingham - Goodreads

Biographies are always a toss up because it seems to me that whether the book is enjoyable depends more on the author than it does on the subject matter. This book was a very pleasant surprise for me ... Read full review

Review: The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics

User Review  - Aurelien - Goodreads

Friendly and with a pinch of fun, the author puts the monk back into the context of his time so as to better understand all the myths that have since then been built around his work and person. Of ... Read full review

All 18 reviews »

Related books

Contents

Spring 1900
1
Act One
11
In the Glasshouse
13
Southern Exposure
29
Between Science and God
40
Breakdown in Vienna
47
Back to the Garden
60
Crossings
69
The Silence
151
My Time Will Come
160
Act Two
175
Synchronicity
177
Mendel Redux
179
The Monk s Bulldog
199
A Death in Oxford
221
Inventing Mendelism
227

First Harvest
82
Eves Homunculus
94
The Flowering of Darwinism
100
Garden Reflections
119
Full Moon in February
133
INTERLUDE
149
A Statue in Mendelplatz
247
Another Spring
257
Acknowledgments
263
Notes and Selected Readings
266
Index
281
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

References to this book

From other books

De-Coca-Colonization: Making the Globe from the Inside Out
Explorers of the Body: Dramatic Breakthroughs in Medicine from Ancient Times ...
All Book Search results »

From Google Scholar

Introduction: Behavioral genetics-The third century
Oliver Hobert, Oliver Hobert - 2003 - Journal of Neurobiology
The extent of Charles Darwin’s knowledge of Mendel
Andrew Sclater - 2006 - Journal of Biosciences
Absolutely Fabulous History of Science?
David Philip Miller - 2004 - Social Studies of Science
All Scholar search results »

About the author (2000)

Robin Marantz Henig is the author of seven books. Her most recent, The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Bibliographic information