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McDonald, Roger Mr. Darwin's Shooter Penguin USA 2000 0140288597 / 9780140288599 Trade Paperback Fine A photo of this book is available. Fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, clean pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 384 pages. Synopsis From one of Australia’s most acclaimed authors, a dazzling and deeply imagined exploration of ambition, natural marvels, and scientific discovery, and one of history’s most significant crises of faith. As a boy of thirteen, Syms Covington leaves his home in Bedford and goes to sea, passing into manhood as he sails the world, surveying Patagonia, and losing his virginity in the Pampas. Aboard the HMS Beagle, he enters the service of Charles Darwin as an energetic and precocious fifteen-year-old, and in the course of their voyages together he shoots and collects hundreds of specimens for his gent, specimens that become fundamental to the formulation of Darwin’s theory of evolution. Now a crusty, eccentric, near-deaf old man, Covington has settled in Australia and is awaiting the arrival of the first copy of On the Origin of Species. Beset by guilt over participating in a work that will shake the human worldview to its foundations, he nonetheless wonders what part of himself might be reflected in Darwin’s oeuvre. Mr. Darwin’s Shooter captures its time with rare and dazzling skill, evoking an unforgettable but forgotten man at a watershed moment in history. Gabriella Stern Mr. McDonald has given this marginal historical figure a life, and what a life it is. -- The Wall Street Journal Price:
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