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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
006008877X
ISBN-13
9780060088774
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6038701308
Product Key Features
Book Title
Evolution's Captain : the Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Topic
South America / General, Natural History, Adventurers & Explorers, History, Expeditions & Discoveries, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2003
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-047815
Reviews
[It's] hard not to share Nichols' fascination with how FitzRoy...inadvertantly set off a scientfic controversy., Nichols delivers a dramatic, highly colored narrative about the head-on collision between two worldviews., "A well-written and lively tale, filled with insightful analysis and telling details." -- Seattle Times "A powerful story played out against a beguiling landscape." -- New York Times Book Review "Nichols delivers a dramatic, highly colored narrative about the head-on collision between two worldviews." -- Washington Post "A fascinating account ... a finely researched, engaging book." -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution "This engrossing account of Fitzroy's life reads like the finest historical fiction." -- Sunday Telegraph "A fascinating account." -- Edmonton Sun "[It's] hard not to share Nichols' fascination with how FitzRoy...inadvertantly set off a scientfic controversy." -- Publishers Weekly "A detailed ... portrait of a man whose talents should have earned him a higher place in history." -- Kirkus Reviews "Marvelous...a fascinating and expert amalgam of history, science, anthropology and adventure." -- Derek Lundy, author of The Way of a Ship
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
918.2/76044
Synopsis
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 religious and scientific terms. When the Beagle's first captain committed suicide while at sea in 1828, he was replaced by a young naval officer of a new mold. Robert FitzRoy was the most brilliant and scientific sea captain of his age. He used the Beagle, a survey vessel, as a laboratory for the new field of the natural sciences. But his plan to bring four "savages" home to England to civilize them as Christian gentlefolk backfired when scandal loomed over their sexual misbehavior at the Walthamstow Infants School. FitzRoy needed to get them out of England fast, and thus was born the second and most famous voyage of the Beagle. FitzRoy feared the loneliness of another long voyage -- with madness in his own family, he was haunted by the fate of the Beagle's previous captain -- so for company he took with him the young amateur naturalist Charles Darwin. Like FitzRoy, Darwin believed, at the beginning of the voyage, in the absolute word of the Bible and the story of man's creation. The two men spent five years circling the globe together, but by the end of their voyage they had reached startlingly different conclusions about the origins of the natural world. In naval terms, the voyage was a stunning scientific success. But FitzRoy, a fanatical Christian, was horrified by the heretical theories Darwin began to develop. As these began to influence the profoundest levels of religious and scientific thinking in the nineteenth century, FitzRoy's knowledge that he had provided Darwin with the vehicle for his sacrilegious ideas propelled him down an irrevocable path to suicide. This true story -- part biography, part sea drama, and a subtle study of one of the defining moments in the history of science -- reads like the finest historical fiction. It is a chronicle of the remarkable chain of events without which Darwin would most likely have lived and died an obscure English country parson with a fondness for collecting beetles., 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 religious and scientific terms. When the Beagle 's first captain committed suicide while at sea in 1828, he was replaced by a young naval officer of a new mold. Robert FitzRoy was the most brilliant and scientific sea captain of his age. He used the Beagle , a survey vessel, as a laboratory for the new field of the natural sciences. But his plan to bring four "savages" home to England to civilize them as Christian gentlefolk backfired when scandal loomed over their sexual misbehavior at the Walthamstow Infants School. FitzRoy needed to get them out of England fast, and thus was born the second and most famous voyage of the Beagle . FitzRoy feared the loneliness of another long voyage -- with madness in his own family, he was haunted by the fate of the Beagle 's previous captain -- so for company he took with him the young amateur naturalist Charles Darwin. Like FitzRoy, Darwin believed, at the beginning of the voyage, in the absolute word of the Bible and the story of man's creation. The two men spent five years circling the globe together, but by the end of their voyage they had reached startlingly different conclusions about the origins of the natural world. In naval terms, the voyage was a stunning scientific success. But FitzRoy, a fanatical Christian, was horrified by the heretical theories Darwin began to develop. As these began to influence the profoundest levels of religious and scientific thinking in the nineteenth century, FitzRoy's knowledge that he had provided Darwin with the vehicle for his sacrilegious ideas propelled him down an irrevocable path to suicide. This true story -- part biography, part sea drama, and a subtle study of one of the defining moments in the history of science -- reads like the finest historical fiction. It is a chronicle of the remarkable chain of events without which Darwin would most likely have lived and died an obscure English country parson with a fondness for collecting beetles.
LC Classification Number
F2936.N53 2003
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