This Thing of Darkness
by Harry Thompson
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used; Good
- ISBN 10
- 0755302818
- ISBN 13
- 9780755302819
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Brit Books Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0000185856
- Title
- This Thing of Darkness
- Author
- Harry Thompson
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used; Good
- Quantity Available
- 6
- ISBN 10
- 0755302818
- ISBN 13
- 9780755302819
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Place of Publication
- Uk
- This edition first published
- 2006
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