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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... wave cascaded across the decks . Stokes , caught in the open , slipped to the floor and was slammed against the lee rail , a mass of broken spars and tangled ropes piling after him , but somehow the water pouring through the sluices ...
... wave cascaded across the decks . Stokes , caught in the open , slipped to the floor and was slammed against the lee rail , a mass of broken spars and tangled ropes piling after him , but somehow the water pouring through the sluices ...
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... wave . But somehow , slowly , ever so slowly , the Beagle rose again , her prow swinging , inch by inch , round into the gale . Water sluiced through her ports as her decks emerged once more from the angry foam . A flash of lightning ...
... wave . But somehow , slowly , ever so slowly , the Beagle rose again , her prow swinging , inch by inch , round into the gale . Water sluiced through her ports as her decks emerged once more from the angry foam . A flash of lightning ...
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... wave swallowed the Beagle's entire bow . But she was still rising , her deck sloping further and further back , until it seemed she must be catapulted verti- cally into the raging sky . Then , at last , she breasted the wave , and ...
... wave swallowed the Beagle's entire bow . But she was still rising , her deck sloping further and further back , until it seemed she must be catapulted verti- cally into the raging sky . Then , at last , she breasted the wave , and ...
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