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This Thing of Darkness Paperback - 2006

by Harry Thompson


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The year is 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. But Fitzroy hides a dark secret: hereditary manic depression that can strike at any time. He is seized by two ambitions -- that he can prove, contrary to the spirit of the age, that black and white men are equal; and that he can prove the truth of the Book of Genesis. To this end, 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... *This Thing of Darkness* is not just an epic historical novel. By turns gripping, funny, satirical and heartbreaking, it is also a novel about race, religion, science and colonialism that sheds many a light on the state of our world today. It is also one of history's great untold true stories, a tale of men under sail who were prepared to risk their very lives to get at the truth.

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  • Title This Thing of Darkness
  • Author Harry Thompson
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Pages 750
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Not Avail, UK
  • Date 2006
  • ISBN 9780755302819 / 0755302818
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.92
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