Harry Thompson
Paperback | Pages: 626 pages Rating: 4.49 | 2039 Users | 261 Reviews
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| Original Title: | This Thing of Darkness |
| ISBN: | 0755327144 (ISBN13: 9780755327140) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Charles Darwin, Robert Fitzroy, Bartholomew James Sulivan, Orundellico |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2005) |
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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...Specify Of Books This Thing of Darkness
| Title | : | This Thing of Darkness |
| Author | : | Harry Thompson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 626 pages |
| Published | : | 2005 by Review |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction |
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Ratings: 4.49 From 2039 Users | 261 ReviewsJudge Of Books This Thing of Darkness
Brilliant! What an amazing book. 744 pages, all told, but well worth the three weeks it took me to read. What an incredible piece of scholarship and of writing. Bravo!Not short.
I have had this book on my shelf for a few years, being quite a tome I kept putting it off. However, having a week at the beach seemed like the perfect opportunity to tackle it, so I did.Wow! I was in hook, line and sinker. This is the story of Captain Robert Fitzroy, who at the ripe old age of 23 was made Captain of the 'Beagle' and sent to assist with charting the coast of South America. He also on one of his voyages took a young Charles Darwin with him as the ships naturalist and more
This is why historical fiction is my favourite genre. Thompson recounts the stories of two great men - Captain Robert Fitzroy of the Beagle and Charles Darwin - through detailing their adventures, friendship, philosophies and demons. I was astonished at how little I knew about these hugely influential Brits. Thompson's ability to describe detailed and technical discoveries and profound ideas surrounding science and religion in an utterly readable and absorbing way, along with his creative and
Though I am not part of a nation that ever succeeded in forming an empire, and which, historically, has been a victim more often than an oppressor, I am nevertheless a citizen of modern Europe and reaping the benefits of Western, Christian-rooted civilisation - as well as the privileges my skin colour offers. I mention this because as I read Thompson's book, the overwhelming and recurring emotions were embarrassment and dismay at the destruction white man has brought upon nations of a darker
Wow...I didn't just love this book, I lived it. It spoke to me in a very special way, about life, death, love, hope, despair and the inner turmoils and emotions that accompany us through the journeys we make, both physical and metaphorical. This book had everything; action and excitement, science and religion, love and war. I cannot recommend this book enough. It became my companion and I am feeling very lonely now that I have finished it.
A strange novel, that if entirely fictional you would say was a bit, well, odd. To then find out that the entire core narrative is based on real life transforms this into a book that stays with you.Poor Fitzroy - an extremely talented naval officer, always seeking to do the right thing, while surrounded by shady unscrupulous characters. Darwin of course is the famous one, but he flits in and out if the tale, and it is always to Fitzroy that we return.Not an adventure novel, despite the
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