Joel Schwartz

Joel Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island, where he taught for forty years. A historian of nineteenth-century natural history, he has written extensively on the development of evolutionary theory and the role of maritime exploration in scientific discovery. He is the author of Darwin's Disciple: George John Romanes, A Life in Letters and Robert Brown and Mungo Park: Travels and Explorations in Natural History for the Royal Society. Cape Breton Memories: Margaree & Beyond is his first memoir, drawn from a lifetime of visits to Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia — first with his parents, later with his own wife and sons, and now his grandchildren.