Roger McDonald

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Mr. Darwin's ShooterPaperback, 21 January 2008

Mr. Darwin's Shooter
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Print Length
364 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Grove Press
Date Published
21 Jan 2008
ISBN-10
0802143563
ISBN-13
9780802143563

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From one of Australia's most acclaimed authors, a dazzling and deeply imagined exploration of ambition, natural marvels, and scientific discovery, and one of history's most significant crises of faith. As a boy of thirteen, Syms Covington leaves his home in Bedford and goes to sea, passing into manhood as he sails the world, surveying Patagonia, and losing his virginity in the Pampas. Aboard the HMS Beagle, he enters the service of Charles Darwin as an energetic and precocious fifteen-year-old, and in the course of their voyages together he shoots and collects hundreds of specimens for his "gent," specimens that become fundamental to the formulation of Darwin's theory of evolution. Now a crusty, eccentric, near-deaf old man, Covington has settled in Australia and is awaiting the arrival of the first copy of On the Origin of Species. Beset by guilt over participating in a work that will shake the human worldview to its foundations, he nonetheless wonders what part of himself might be reflected in Darwin's oeuvre. Mr. Darwin's Shooter captures its time with rare and dazzling skill, evoking an unforgettable--but forgotten--man at a watershed moment in history.

Product Details

Author:
Roger McDonald
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
21 January 2008
Dimensions:
21.13 x 13.87 x 2.57 cm
Genre:
British
ISBN-10:
0802143563
ISBN-13:
9780802143563
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
364
Publisher:
Weight:
449.06 gm

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