Fictionalised but fully researched life of Captain Fitzroy of the Beagle - an epic of sea-faring adventure, dramatic landscapes, tragi-comic Fuegians, scientific discovery, personal disaster and the Empire. Dominated by Fitzroy, brave, able well-intentioned but his own, troubled, worst enemy, and the inexperienced, affable Darwin in whom brilliant observation and independent thought are balanced by some less sympathetic behaviour. A friendship soured. Terrific story, grippingly and movingly told.
(Tony Pratt - bwl 58 Autumn 2010 ) |
