Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World by Peter Nichols

Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World

Peter Nichols

336 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science adventurous informative slow-paced
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Evolution's Captain is the story of a visionary but now forgotten English naval officer but for whom the "Darwinian Revolution" would never have occurred. When Captain Robert FitzRoy, the twenty-six-year-old captain of the H.M.S. Beagle, set out f...

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