This Thing of Darkness
of Harry Thompson
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1828 - Brilliant young naval officer Robert FitzRoy is given the captaincy of HMS Beagle, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, aged just twenty-three. He takes a passenger: a young trainee cleric and amateur geologist named Charles Darwin. This is the story of a deep friendship between two men, and the twin obsessions that tore it apart, leading one to triumph and the other to disaster...
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 626 pages
- Publisher Review
- Publication Date 2005
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780755327140
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
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