This Thing of Darkness
de Harry Thompson
- Usado
- good
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0755302818
- ISBN 13
- 9780755302819
- Librería
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Headline Review, 2006. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Sinopsis
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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- ThriftBooks
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- Título
- This Thing of Darkness
- Autor
- Harry Thompson
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0755302818
- ISBN 13
- 9780755302819
- Editorial
- Headline Review
- Lugar de publicación
- Uk
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
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