An edition of This Thing of Darkness (2005)

To the edge of the world

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An edition of This Thing of Darkness (2005)

To the edge of the world

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The year is 1828.
Brilliant young naval officer Robert Fitzroy is given the captaincy of HMS Beagle, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, aged just twenty-three. But Fitzroy hides a dark secret: hereditary manic depression that can strike at any time. He is seized by two ambitions -- that he can prove, contrary to the spirit of the age, that black and white men are equal; and that he can prove the truth of the Book of Genesis. To this end, he takes a passenger: a young trainee cleric and amateur geologist named Charles Darwin. This is the story of a deep friendship between two men, and the twin obsessions that tore it apart, leading one to triumph and the other to disaster...

This Thing of Darkness is not just an epic historical novel. By turns gripping, funny, satirical and heartbreaking, it is also a novel about race, religion, science and colonialism that sheds many a light on the state of our world today. It is also one of history's great untold true stories, a tale of men under sail who were prepared to risk their very lives to get at the truth.

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Publisher
MacAdam/Cage Pub.
Language
English
Pages
789

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Cover of: To The Edge of the World
To The Edge of the World
May 24, 2007, MacAdam/Cage Publishing
Paperback in English
Cover of: This Thing of Darkness
This Thing of Darkness
2006, Headline Review
Paperback
Cover of: To the Edge of the World
To the Edge of the World
July 19, 2006, MacAdam Cage
Hardcover in English
Cover of: To the edge of the world
To the edge of the world
2006, MacAdam/Cage Pub.
in English
Cover of: This Thing of Darkness
This Thing of Darkness
November 16, 2006, BookForce
Paperback in English - Export/airside Ed edition
Cover of: This Thing of Darkness
This Thing of Darkness: A Story of Adventure, Tragedy and a Voyage that Changed the World
June 6, 2005, Headline Review
Hardcover in English
Cover of: To the edge of the world
To the edge of the world
2005, MacAdam/Cage Pub.
in English

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Edition Notes

Previously published as: This thing of darkness.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [786]-789).

Published in
San Francisco, CA
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.92
Library of Congress
PR6120.H664 T48 2005, PR6120.H664 T48 2007, PR6120.H664T48 2006

The Physical Object

Pagination
789 p. :
Number of pages
789

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18829553M
ISBN 10
1596921900
LCCN
2006044978
OCLC/WorldCat
67346319
Library Thing
5107539
Goodreads
1074947

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