To the Edge of the WorldMacAdam/Cage Pub., 2005 - Всего страниц: 789 This is an epic novel of sea-faring adventure set in the 19th century charting the life of Robert Fitzroy, the captain of 'The Beagle' and his passenger Charles Darwin. It combines adventure, emotion, ideas, humor and tragedy as well as illuminating the history of the 19th century. Fitzroy, the Christian Tory aristocrat, believed in the sanctity of the individual, but his beliefs were a challenge to his career. Darwin, the liberal naturalist doubts the truth of the Bible and develops his theory of evolution which is brutal and unforgiving in human terms. The two friends became bitter enemies as Darwin destroyed everything Fitzroy stood for. |
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... called in the Admiralty's offer of assistance - how he had called it in - by arranging for the Fuegians to be admitted to the Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth , quarantined in a whole ward of their own , under the care of the eminent ...
... called in the Admiralty's offer of assistance - how he had called it in - by arranging for the Fuegians to be admitted to the Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth , quarantined in a whole ward of their own , under the care of the eminent ...
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... called it Otaheite by mistake , and I have too much respect for the great man to call it by any other name . ' It had been a glorious crossing , the Beagle swept across the Pacific on the warm trade winds , her studding - sails set ...
... called it Otaheite by mistake , and I have too much respect for the great man to call it by any other name . ' It had been a glorious crossing , the Beagle swept across the Pacific on the warm trade winds , her studding - sails set ...
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... called a Scelidotherium , there is a giant sloth called a Glyptodon , and a giant guanaco that he has named Machrauchenia . Owen says , and this is the remarkable thing , that all the South American fossils are related to the animals ...
... called a Scelidotherium , there is a giant sloth called a Glyptodon , and a giant guanaco that he has named Machrauchenia . Owen says , and this is the remarkable thing , that all the South American fossils are related to the animals ...
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