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This Thing of Darkness

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

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  • 626 pages
  • 22 hours of reading

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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...

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This Thing of Darkness, Harry Thompson

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2005
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