Evolution's captain - Peter Nichols
the dark fate of the man who sailed Charles Darwin around the world
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Evolution's Captain is the 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 reli...
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2003 Uitgever: harpercollins 336 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 006008877X ISBN-13: 9780060088774Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, map on endpapers, some b/w illustrations, 8vo. [Auteur: Nichols, Peter] [Pagina's: 336] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: HarperCOllins Publishers] [Jaar: 2003] [Titel: Evolution's Captain: Dark Fate of the Man Who Sa...