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Title	:	This Thing of Darkness
Author	:	Harry Thompson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 626 pages
Published	:	2005 by Review
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction

This Thing of Darkness

Harry Thompson

Paperback | Pages: 626 pages

Rating: 4.49 | 2039 Users | 261 Reviews

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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...

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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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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!

An absolutely colossal, astounding, and devastating work. I have a new hero, and his name is Robert FitzRoy.

This Thing of Darkness' tells the story of Robert FitzRoy, brilliant naval man, father of meteorology and friend of Charles Darwin.This is technically a fictional account of his life, but it really is a novel written around factual sources from FitzRoy's logs, Darwin's writings and other historical data. Thompson has written a magnificent character piece around this historical data.Thompson goes on to write an afterword that outlines exactly how little he embellished the story, in most

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 Thing of Darkness' tells the story of Robert FitzRoy, brilliant naval man, father of meteorology and friend of Charles Darwin.This is technically a fictional account of his life, but it really is a novel written around factual sources from FitzRoy's logs, Darwin's writings and other historical data. Thompson has written a magnificent character piece around this historical data.Thompson goes on to write an afterword that outlines exactly how little he embellished the story, in most

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

Story about the voyage of the Beagle its captain Fitzroy and its naturalist Charles Darwin.This is Thompsons first novel (and last he died of cancer shortly after publication) after non-fiction travel books and a biography (of Peter Cook).The story combined: travelogue; biographical detail; Patrick OBrien type epic seafaring adventure (which I found hard to follow and uninteresting); and philosophical debates. Latter is particularly and explicitly around Evolution but also about: Race and its