Evolution’s captain: the story of the kidnapping that led to Charles Darwin’s voyage aboard the “Beagle”.

Name: Evolution's captain: the story of the kidnapping that led to Charles Darwin's voyage aboard the "Beagle".
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Nichols, Peter.
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This is the remarkable story of how a misguided decision by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, precipitated his employment of a young naturalist named Charles Darwin. Also available in hardback see stock id: 19419

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Harper Collins Publishers, Octavo, paperback, illustrations.

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