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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... dark of night , like ascending banks of church candles . Theirs was a world revealed by dark- ness , when their dogs barked and their drums spoke . In the daytime the Indians fell silent , and followed at a careful distance in their ...
... dark of night , like ascending banks of church candles . Theirs was a world revealed by dark- ness , when their dogs barked and their drums spoke . In the daytime the Indians fell silent , and followed at a careful distance in their ...
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... dark and silent . A faint rattling and creaking indicated that the ship was still at anchor . FitzRoy stirred . The worst of the night's terror had drained away now . Fear and dread had come in the dark , had choked him and mocked him ...
... dark and silent . A faint rattling and creaking indicated that the ship was still at anchor . FitzRoy stirred . The worst of the night's terror had drained away now . Fear and dread had come in the dark , had choked him and mocked him ...
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... dark lord . The horses ' momentum took the vehicle at a pace across Elvet Bridge and up the hill opposite ; they pierced the dark lord's outer battlements of drab , slate - roofed houses with consummate ease . A sharp turn into the ...
... dark lord . The horses ' momentum took the vehicle at a pace across Elvet Bridge and up the hill opposite ; they pierced the dark lord's outer battlements of drab , slate - roofed houses with consummate ease . A sharp turn into the ...
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