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Evolution's captain : the dark fate of the man who sailed Charles Darwin around the world
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Evolution's captain : the dark fate of the man who sailed Charles Darwin around the world

by Peter Nichols

An account of the relationship between Captain Robert FitzRoy and Charles Darwin during the voyage of HMS Beagle. It explores how the clash between FitzRoy's fundamentalist beliefs and Darwin's discoveries contributed to the captain's mental health decline.

Accession 14782 ISBN 006008877X Publisher HarperCollins
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Story of a visionary but now forgotten English naval officer but for whom the "Darwinian Revolution" would never have occurred. When Captain Robert FitzRoy, the twenty-six-year-old captain of the H.M.S. Beagle, set out for Tierra del Fuego in the fall of 1831, he invited a young naturalist to accompany him. That twenty-two-year-old gentleman was Charles Darwin, and perhaps no single voyage in history had a greater impact on how we would come to understand the world -- in both religious and scientific terms. -- blurb

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