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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"When HMS Beagle's first captain committed suicide in the bleak waters of Tierra del Fuego in 1828, he was replaced by a young naval officer of a new mould. 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...
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