This Thing of Darkness

A Story of Adventure, Tragedy and a Voyage That Changed the World

Autori

• Harry Thompson

Parametri

• 626 pagine
• 22 ore di lettura

• Avventura
• Mappe e viaggi
• Narrativa
• Prosa storica
• Viaggi

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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...

• Deformazione della rilegatura

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2005

(In brossura)

Condizioni del libro: Danneggiato

Prezzo: 5,57 €