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Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
by Nichols, Peter
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 006008877X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060088774
- Seller
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Datil, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
NY: HarperCollins, 2003. Hardcover, 336 pages. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Size 9.25"x6.25". "The forgotten other half of the story behind the Darwinian revolution." Book and dust jacket have light handling/shelfwear, and are clean and unmarked.. Near Fine.
Synopsis
This is the story of the man without whom the name Charles Darwin might be unknown to us today. That man was Captain Robert FitzRoy, who invited the 22-year-old Darwin to be his companion on board the Beagle .This is the remarkable story of how a misguided decision by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle , precipitated his employment of a young naturalist named Charles Darwin, and how the clash between FitzRoy’s fundamentalist views and Darwin’s discoveries led to FitzRoy’s descent into the abyss.One of the great ironies of history is that the famous journey – wherein Charles Darwin consolidated the earth-rattling ‘origin of the species’ discoveries – was conceived by another man: Robert FitzRoy. It was FitzRoy who chose Darwin for the journey – not because of Darwin’s scientific expertise, but because he seemed a suitable companion to help FitzRoy fight back the mental illness that had plagued his family for generations. Darwin did not give FitzRoy solace; indeed, the clash between the two men’s opposing views, together with the ramifications of Darwin’s revelations, provided FitzRoy with the final unendurable torment that forced him to end his own life.
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- Bookseller
- Florida Mountain Book Co.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009968
- Title
- Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
- Author
- Nichols, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 006008877X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060088774
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY MARITIME HISTORY 19TH CENTURY BRITISH VOYAGES EVOLUTION CHARLES DARWIN ROBERT FITZROY HMS BEAGLE TIERRA DEL FUEGO
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About the Seller
Florida Mountain Book Co.
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Datil, New Mexico
About Florida Mountain Book Co.
The Florida Mountains are located in southwestern New Mexico, near the U.S.-Mexico border. The Parsons family, proprietors of Florida Mountain Book Company, have been in the book business since 1996. Formerly the owners & operators of Readers' Cove Bookstore in Deming, New Mexico, beginning in May of 2012, we are now exclusively based on the internet.
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