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| Original Title: | This Thing of Darkness |
| ISBN: | 0755327144 (ISBN13: 9780755327140) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, Bartholomew James Sulivan, Orundellico |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2005) |
Harry Thompson
Paperback | Pages: 626 pages Rating: 4.49 | 2039 Users | 261 Reviews
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| Title | : | This Thing of Darkness |
| Author | : | Harry Thompson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 626 pages |
| Published | : | 2005 by Review |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction |
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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. 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...Rating About Books This Thing of Darkness
Ratings: 4.49 From 2039 Users | 261 ReviewsCritique About Books This Thing of Darkness
I abandoned this fairly early on, in large part because it has the single most boring storm at sea I've ever read in the first 40 pages.I have had this book on my shelf for a few years, being quite a tome I kept putting it off. However, having a week at the beach seemed like the perfect opportunity to tackle it, so I did.Wow! I was in hook, line and sinker. This is the story of Captain Robert Fitzroy, who at the ripe old age of 23 was made Captain of the 'Beagle' and sent to assist with charting the coast of South America. He also on one of his voyages took a young Charles Darwin with him as the ships naturalist and more
Wow...I didn't just love this book, I lived it. It spoke to me in a very special way, about life, death, love, hope, despair and the inner turmoils and emotions that accompany us through the journeys we make, both physical and metaphorical. This book had everything; action and excitement, science and religion, love and war. I cannot recommend this book enough. It became my companion and I am feeling very lonely now that I have finished it.
Majestic. A doorstep of a book that vividly brings to life Robert FitzRoy the Captain of the Beagle and his five year voyage with Charles Darwin to Tierra del Fuego, the Falklands, the Galapagos and beyond. The two men became close during the voyage but differences in their beliefs started as a crack and widened to a chasm. There are some marvellous discussions between the two men on whether the Biblical Flood ever happened and whether species can transmute. The book has two magnificent
When I finished reading this book, the first statement that made it through my mind was something said by Morgan Freeman's character Detective Somerset by the end of the movie Se7en: 'Ernest Hemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.'This book chronicles the adventure of Captain Robert FitzRoy and the crew of HMS Beagle, joined by Charles Darwin later on as the ship's naturalist-cum-village-idiot, as they traversed the Atlantic to the
'This Thing of Darkness' tells the story of Robert FitzRoy, brilliant naval man, father of meteorology and friend of Charles Darwin.This is technically a fictional account of his life, but it really is a novel written around factual sources from FitzRoy's logs, Darwin's writings and other historical data. Thompson has written a magnificent character piece around this historical data.Thompson goes on to write an afterword that outlines exactly how little he embellished the story, in most
Not short.
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