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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... seemed no point to his life , no point to his work , no point even to existence itself . Gradually , the darkness had seemed to take shape in his mind . As he was still in the sick list , his friends had presumed him to be battling the ...
... seemed no point to his life , no point to his work , no point even to existence itself . Gradually , the darkness had seemed to take shape in his mind . As he was still in the sick list , his friends had presumed him to be battling the ...
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... seemed to comprise the bulk of their diet . It was hard to connect them with any other tribe on earth . Indeed , they seemed more like porpoises than men . They were , thought FitzRoy , like a satire on humanity . At Mount de la Cruz ...
... seemed to comprise the bulk of their diet . It was hard to connect them with any other tribe on earth . Indeed , they seemed more like porpoises than men . They were , thought FitzRoy , like a satire on humanity . At Mount de la Cruz ...
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... seemed an impos- sibility ; that a disaster of such Biblical proportions should have intruded into our modern age seemed incredible ; but even modern man , with all his ingenuity , all his mechanical contrivances , ignores the power of ...
... seemed an impos- sibility ; that a disaster of such Biblical proportions should have intruded into our modern age seemed incredible ; but even modern man , with all his ingenuity , all his mechanical contrivances , ignores the power of ...
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