Mr Darwin's ShooterAlfred A. Knopf, 1998 - Всего страниц: 365 In this richly detailed novel based on the life of Syms Covington, Charles Darwin's hard-working shipboard assistant and later his house-servant, Roger McDonald shines a light on a man forgotten by history, capturing the breathtaking excitement of the historic voyage of the Beagle and brilliantly illuminating the scientific, religious, and social controversies that exploded around Darwin's watershed theories. As "Darwin's shooter, " Covington collected and preserved invaluable specimens; as the scientist's clerk in London, was he the first man to grasp the full import of their research -- the seeds of Darwin's theory of natural selection? Twenty years later, Covington awaits his copy of The Origin of Species with mixed emotions. Embittered by Darwin's failure to acknowledge him, he is also profoundly troubled by his own role in the discoveries that subverted sacred doctrines and shook the Victorian worldview to its very foundation. |
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... spirit a chance in an atmosphere that melted to butter . They saw it , the winking curves of walnut wood . And presto Covington was enjoined to render a tune , a merry jig played in the inn near the crowded kennel where Spit and Polish ...
... spirit a chance in an atmosphere that melted to butter . They saw it , the winking curves of walnut wood . And presto Covington was enjoined to render a tune , a merry jig played in the inn near the crowded kennel where Spit and Polish ...
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... spirit . Or more truthful to say , packing his spirit down in the nether - hold until it cried to be taken out . He did not press so much for what he wanted any more . Silence bulged around him . Deafness boxed him in . They sailed down ...
... spirit . Or more truthful to say , packing his spirit down in the nether - hold until it cried to be taken out . He did not press so much for what he wanted any more . Silence bulged around him . Deafness boxed him in . They sailed down ...
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... spirit of life I gave her , carrier of my best blood , my sweet homing pigeon . But it worried him that the por- traits might be her way of saying farewell . She had arrived on the Betsy Blaine out of San Francisco , and the second ...
... spirit of life I gave her , carrier of my best blood , my sweet homing pigeon . But it worried him that the por- traits might be her way of saying farewell . She had arrived on the Betsy Blaine out of San Francisco , and the second ...
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